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DESCRIPTION:Since the Metropolitan Transit Agency (MTA) announced its plans to explore 
 potential areas of revenue in September of 2009, the agency has played a 
 political game, which pits different community groups against each other 
 for their own benefit. They have attacked car drivers who can no longer 
 afford MUNI; they have attacked MUNI janitorial workers who maintain MUNI. 
 The MTA has attacked seniors, the youth, and the disabled who are the most 
 vulnerable during these hard economic times by threatening to double their 
 Fast Passes. They have vastly increased police harassment on MUNI – at 
 great cost. Last year, the SFPD billed MUNI $18 million for “services.” 
 All in all, the MTA continues to attack poor and working families who are 
 experiencing cuts, not only at the city level, but at the state and federal 
 level as well.  \n\nThe MTA has claimed to be sympathetic to the San 
 Francisco community. They claim to understand these measures are “tough 
 decisions,” for the poor and working families. But not once has the board 
 proposed a cut to their own bloated salaries and those of other MUNI and 
 MTA management in order to show that their “understanding” has true 
 meaning. The top heavy cost to maintain public services in San Francisco is 
 just one of the symptoms of the larger problem with the City as a whole 
 that avoids taxing those who have benefited from this economic crisis, the 
 rich! We say it is time to stop making cuts and ratcheting up fares, meter 
 hours and parking tickets and instead TAX THE RICH!\n\nThe current 
 patchwork on the deficits in the MTA will not be solved by more cutbacks 
 and more fare hikes. It is important to know that even if the MTA approves 
 these devastating cuts to “solve” this year’s $16.9 million deficit, 
 next year’s deficit amounts to $52.7 million! This means that we can 
 expect the approved cuts to be added to a long list of new service and job 
 cuts and new fare hikes.  \n\nThis crisis cannot be solved on the backs of 
 poor and working people. It is time to start cutting from the top! We call 
 on community organizations, activists, MUNI riders, and the people of San 
 Francisco who have had enough with the City’s non-stop cuts to our 
 salaries and services to demand that the rich pay instead!\n\nJoin us on 
 Feb. 16, 9am to make our voices heard in the MTA hearing. Call 415-821-6545 
 for more information or to get involved in the campaign.\n ! \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/11/18637553.php
SUMMARY:Stop All MUNI Cutbacks and Fare Hikes! Come Speak Out at the MTA Hearing!
LOCATION:SF City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 400
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/11/18637553.php
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