NEW YORK, May 24 -- The AFL-CIO Actors Equity Association issued the following news release: * * * Actors' Equity Association Decries Passage of House Tax Budget without Tax Fairness for Performing Artists Last night's House budget, passed under cover of darkness in the middle of the night, failed the American people in countless ways. Among them: the exclusion of the Performing Artists Tax Parity Act (PATPA), which would correct an unintended consequence of prior tax reform efforts, which le more PR