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Instead of using the nation s budget surplus to strengthen Medicare and add a prescription drug benefit for seniors, shore up Social Security, provide quality health care and education and support a fair, reasonable tax cut targeted to working families, the tax scheme would provide millions of dollars for the wealthy corporate backers of George Bush, a couple hundred dollars for middle America. Michigan State AFL-CIO President Mark T. Gaffney asked a noon rally of 200 people in Lansing. News conferences and other events took place in more than 40 cities in 27 states. What we are talking about in this country now is a fundamental decision about what this nation s priorities are, Kennedy said. Two days before, Bush submitted a budget that pays for the giveaway to the rich by cutting significantly into programs for working families.