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Your Tax Dollars at Work!

This week, a little-known St. Lucie County taxing authority, the Children’s Services Council (CSC), is once again giving consideration to funding abortion giant Planned Parenthood (PP) with local tax dollars.

Taxpayers attending this week’s public forum at 8:15am on Sept. 8, can use the crib sheet below to formulate factual comments that can used at the forum which will be held at the CSC office, 546 NW University Blvd, Suite 201, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986  across from the entrance to Tradition Field. (View a map here.) E-mails opposing the PP funding can be sent to the CSC’s Executive Director, Sean Boyle at sboyle@cscslc.org. (Learn more here.)

FACT:
• The CSC is an independent taxing authority. They can raise or lower your taxes (see your tax bill for their line item). (They should not be confused with county taxes which is a separate tax).
• The CSC collects taxes to fund a variety of childrens’ programs
• Last year they funded PP with $500,000
• PP program funding running total is over $3 million during the last few years
• PP funding does not specifically include abortions but instead primarily youth sexuality programs which do not discourage abortion.
THINGS TO RESPECTFULLY POINT OUT WHEN YOU ADDRESS THE CSC:
• Thank the council members for their volunteer time and assure them that you also care about the well-being of children
• PP makes millions in profits/year so while we are suffering in this county with a broken economy we are forced to give our hard earned dollars to them.
• Alternative organizations that do not provide or advocate abortion could be found to provide similar programs removing unnecessary disagreements.
• Some PP programs funded by the CSC are already provided by the St. Lucie County Health Department
• PP routinely engages in immoral and illegal activity including :
o Assisting teenage girls in subverting parental notification laws
o Covering up statutory rape
o Accepting donations specifically to abort black babies
o Covering up child sex trafficing.
• PP is the largest provider of abortions in the world
• Many individuals who advocate PP at CSC meetings are staff members who are on payroll, not taxpayers.
• PP employees who oversee CSC funded programs have salaries that are subsidized by taxpayers while they are free to advocate abortion
• Similar programs in Martin County are no longer funded when they could not reasonably be defended or substantiated.
• Polls show that the majority of Floridians oppose funding PP with tax dollars

Local St. Lucie Tax Dollars May Again Go To Planned Parenthood.

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Your Tax Dollars fund Planned Parenthood!

St. Lucie Taxpayers Against Planned Parenthood Funding is recruiting fed-up local taxpayers. On Thursday September 8, 2011, the group will picket the Children’s Services Council Taxing Authority (CSC) meeting at 7:30 a.m. The CSC meeting starts at 8:15 am. The CSC has been funding Planned Parenthood (PP) with local tax dollars for many years including $500,000 last fiscal year. Altogether, PP, the largest provider of abortions in the U.S. has benefited from more than $3 million in local St. Lucie tax dollars. Every year, a portion of St. Lucie residents’ property taxes go to the CSC. The little-known taxing authority can be located on residents’ property tax bill.

PP contends that tax dollars are not used directly to fund abortions. However, tax funded programs include graphic sex education youth programs that do not oppose abortion. Additionally, PP staff members have salaries subsidized by taxpayers while they are free to advocate abortion. The abortion giant already receives more than $300 million nationally in tax dollars. Similar programs in Martin County were discontinued after taxpayer watchdogs showed red-faced council members that funded programs could not be substantiated or were already duplicated by other government agencies.

STOP Funding Planned Parenthood!

This year PP has come under increasing scrutiny from taxpayers across the country as they have been widely implicated for assisting teenage girls in subverting parental notification laws, covering up statutory rape, accepting donations specifically to abort black babies and covering up child sex trafficking.

After the picket, organizers from St. Lucie Taxpayers Against Planned Parenthood Funding are asking taxpayers to go into the meeting and address the CSC during public forum, and respectfully asking them to cease funding of PP with tax dollars. Each member of the public is allowed to speak for several minutes.

Please consider speaking. It’s easy to speak for 3 minutes – you can read what you have written to the board members. Learn what to say at: What Would You Say To Someone Who Gives Your Tax Dollars To Planned Parenthood? Also see the Stop Planned Parenthood website http://www.stopp.org/article.php?id=5252 and the Expose PP site,  http://exposeplannedparenthood.net/ – Go to “Get the Facts” section.

The CSC office is located at 546 NW University Blvd, Suite 201, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986 across from the entrance to Tradition Field. (View a map here.) E-mails opposing the PP funding can be sent to the CSC’s Executive Director, Sean Boyle at sboyle@cscslc.org.

What Would You Say To Someone Who Gives Your Tax Dollars To Planned Parenthood?

STOP Your Local St. Lucie Tax Dollars From Going To Planned Parenthood