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Occupy movement influences Cuomo tax bill

Dec 11, 2011 10:15 pm
The Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel credits several major unions, the Working Family Party Citizen Action, NYCC (the ex-ACORN group), AQE and scores of other organizations large and small for reviving the millionaire's tax in Albany. But, the Occupy movement, it's actions on Wall St. and Park Ave., led "Governor One Percent" to propose a tax plan that taxed the state's highest earners and emphasized fairness over austerity, according to Heuvel. Read the full story in The Nation.