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We need a host in Watkinsville

From: "Lenore Palladino, MoveOn.org Political Action" < moveon-help@list.moveon.org > Date: April 10, 2011 2:37:42 PM EDT To: "Dan Matthews" < danjmatt@bellsouth.net > Subject: We need a host in Watkinsville Most Americans pay our taxes—but billion-dollar corporations are paying little or nothing. It's disgraceful.   Can you host a   "Tax Day: Make Them Pay" event on April 18 in Watkinsville to call out these corporate deadbeats?   Yes, I can host! Dear MoveOn member, Nobody knows the details of Friday night's budget agreement to keep the government from shutting down. But here's one thing we can be pretty sure of:   the pain will fall mainly on poor and middle-class Americans , while billions in tax breaks, loopholes, and handouts for corporations will remain untouched.  Those same billions could keep food in the mouths of hungry women and children, fund critical medical research, and do the actual work of reducing ou...