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February 6, 2012

Occupy protesters disrupt NY budget hearing

Associated Press

ALBANY — Occupy Albany has disrupted a legislative budget hearing with calls for tax fairness and claims Wall Street pays too little.

About 20 protesters in the audience broke into the hearing with a "mic check," shouting in unison that millionaires should be taxed more.

They unfurled a couple of banners decrying corporate tax loopholes and breaks for "the 1 percent."

The protesters also criticized increased state university tuitions and said corporations and the rich have too much influence in government.

The interruption in Monday's joint Senate and Assembly budget hearing on taxes lasted less than 10 minutes before the protesters filed out on their own. There were no arrests.

Occupy Albany camped and demonstrated in a park across from the Capitol for two months until they were evicted on Dec. 22.

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