Jo Comerford, Executive Director of the National Priorities Project, presentation at IgniteAmherst 2013, entitled Sequestration's Dirty Secret.

1. SEQUESTRATION’S
DIRTY SECRETS
Jo Comerford
Executive Director
National Priorities Project
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3. [Very] random
survey
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5. Question:
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6. Question:
“What is
sequestration?”
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8. The answers
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10. Conclusion:
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11. Conclusion:
The majority of
Americans have no
idea
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14. Think…
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15. Think…
Madonna in
Desperately Seeking
Susan
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17. Sequestration:
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18. Sequestration:
A bludgeon when we
needed a calculator
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20. Doing the same thing
over and over again and
expecting different
results
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22. [IMAGE: basic 2013
budget pie with
mandatory,
discretionary and
interest on the debt]
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26. Property tax hikes,
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27. Property tax hikes,
Budget overrides,
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28. Property tax hikes,
Budget overrides,
School fees,
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29. Property tax hikes,
Budget overrides,
School fees,
Toll roads,
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30. Property tax hikes,
Budget overrides,
School fees,
Toll roads,
Increased waste disposal
fees,
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31. Property tax hikes,
Budget overrides,
School fees,
Toll roads,
Increased waste disposal
fees,
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and on and on…

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33. Giving up the cat
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34. Giving up the cat
won’t be enough.
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35. Fifty Years of Federal Spending
and Tax Revenue
(as percent of GDP)
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36. Fifty Years of Federal Spending
and Tax Revenue
(as percent of GDP)
[IMAGE: just want the
tax revenue, not the
spending]
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38. [IMAGE: corporate and
individual tax chart]
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41. Federal Budget
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42. Federal Budget
You and me
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43. Federal Budget
Massachusetts State Budget
You and me
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44. Federal Budget
Massachusetts State Budget Cities &
Towns
You and me Businesses
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47. “Sequestration is
madness,” she
wrote. “We should
be out in the
streets.”
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48. SEQUESTRATION’S
DIRTY SECRETS
Jo Comerford
Executive Director
National Priorities Project
nationalpriorities.org
Wednesday, March 6, 13