Memphis needs a moral budget
Guest Columnist
Osagyefo Sekou
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou is executive director of Workers Interfaith Network.
Guest Columnist
Kevin Bradshaw
Kevin Bradshaw is treasurer of the Memphis AFL-CIO Labor Council.
The notion that low taxes are good for Memphis is a bill of goods, more hollow than the Pyramid and less financially sound. Low taxes help the richest in our society and hurt the rest of us.
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