Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Ending Corporate Greed Act, pass paid family leave legislation and legislation protecting abortion rights, and pass the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass H.R. 7443/S. 3933, the Ending Corporate Greed Act. Sounds ambitious, right? But this bill would tax excess corporate profits at a rate of 95%, “excess profits” being the difference between profits made in a particular year and the average inflation-adjusted profits of the previous five years. That would catch out corporations jacking up prices on good Americans as CEOs gild the plumbing in their 19th vacation homes. If folks call that “punishing success,” remind them, again, that using high inflation as a cover for jacking up prices is not “success.” You might also want to ask them: is evil success?
Moms Rising helps you tell your Congressfolk to restore abortion rights and pass paid family leave legislation. Because you can’t exercise your right to an abortion if you can’t get paid time off from work! Just like you couldn’t deal with a COVID infection if you couldn’t get paid time off from work, a truism even Congressional Republicans recognized in 2020. Of course, the Republican plan for abortion is to make it illegal and make it damn near impossible to get if they can’t, and all I can say to that is: you’re against abortion? Then don’t get one. And if you do want one – or, more likely, need one – you should be able to get one without wondering if you’ll still have a job when you get back.
Finally, the ACLU helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass H.R. 2738/S. 1265, the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act. Our Fourth Amendment, as you know, protects “(t)he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,” yet big data-collecting corporations buy your info from the big telecom corporations that provide internet service, and then the big data corporations sell it to law enforcement, which now doesn’t need the Fourth Amendment-prescribed warrant to get your info. At that point, you are no longer “secure,” certainly not in your “papers” or “effects,” so Congress has to plug this loophole with a quickness.
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