Today's 11 Mile "End To End For 99%" March Begins On 181st, Ends In Zuccotti Park

A protester displays the amount of money that will be lost in tax revenue if the Millionaire's Tax isn't renewed (James Thilman / Gothamist)

At 10:30 this morning, elected officials and neighborhood civic leaders began marching 11 miles from 181st and St. Nicholas down to Zuccotti Park, in an event dubbed "End to End for 99%" that seeks to link the communities of Northern Manhattan and the Bronx with the movement in Lower Manhattan. "Our communities have been devastated by the economic assault on middle class and poor families, even as Wall Street has enjoyed a historic financial bonanza," State Senator Adriano Espaillat said in a statement. "We're marching for jobs, we're marching for affordable housing, we're marching for the millionaire's tax," city councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez says.

A continuation of the "Millionaire's Tax" is supported by 72% of New Yorkers according to recent polling, although Governor Cuomo opposes it because he claims it affects singles and couples making $200K and $300K respectively, and he believes millionaires will just take their money and head to Connecticut. But the bill as proposed by Speaker Sheldon Silver only affects those making over $1 million, and studies have shown that wealthy people don't just pick up and leave when confronted with higher taxes.

"We're proud to stand with our brothers and sisters from diverse communities around New York," Occupy Wall Street volunteer Tyler Combelic says. "We know that communities of color have been especially hard hit by a system that promotes inequality and punishes everyday Americans in favor of big banks and the corporate elite."

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By Christopher Robbins in News on November 7, 2011 11:32 AM

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chee1rs

Dear American taxpayer

Give me your money ,
because I have an art degree and can't get a job ,
can't pay off my debts ,
can't pay my drug dealer
make $22,400 a year

.. and I sleep in a tent

Love ,
OWS

.

JoshNY

That's not really end to end. Occupy Battery Park!

theevilerone

Occupy Staten Island, please!

virgilstarkwell

i think they should keep going when they hit the park and make it a 13 mile walk.

Madly Hatting

Much like the NYPD, even protesters won't go to Inwood.

whitecastlerock

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Guest

this is a tax cut for the wealthy at the cost of essential public services, plain and simple. with a projected state budget gap of $2.4 billion, Cuomo's bald-faced pandering to the wealthy is despicable.

shocktheday

This was a temporary tax imposed which expired, how is this a tax break ?

Guest

what part of millionaires paying a lower tax rate than last year is confusing to you?

not to mention this surcharge is being ALLOWED to expire during a time of budget deficits, that's just poor fiscal governance.

shocktheday

You're comparing year to year. The tax hike was a TEMPORARY tax imposed and it expired; they were not supposed to pay that tax rate in the first place.

shocktheday

Individuals making $200K and families making $300K are still part of the 99%. So this isn't really about attacking the ultra rich, this is just about a subset taking whatever money possible from anybody they deem has too much.

Chris Gregory

How does a millionaires tax effect individuals making those amounts? Can you please cite the passage where it says this?

Guest_of_a_Guest

Second paragraph, first sentence.

ktinnyc

You should have read the following sentence as well.

Guest_of_a_Guest

I read it, but thanks for the suggestion.

FYI, just because Silver has a proposed bill in his pocket doesn't mean anything. Even Silver knows his draft wouldn't get out of the Assembly unscathed, much less the Senate. In any event, Cuomo was talking about the provision that just lapsed, but I'm sure you already knew that.

Polite New Yorker

Why not start at the real end of Manhattan in Inwood (or even Marble Hill, which may still be considered Manhattan)?

Guest_of_a_Guest

Little known fact, Inwood has been completely untouched by the Great Recession. It's true. It has been like the Roaring 20's up there.