Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to bring back the Child Tax Credit expansion and make it permanent and pass a wealth tax on the ultra-rich, and tell your Senators to repeal the 2002 Iraq War AUMF. 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 bring back the Child Tax Credit expansion (from the American Rescue Plan Act) and make it permanent. That CTC expansion put $250 and $300 checks (per child!) in good Americans’ bank accounts every month in 2021, which sure did help when inflation shot upward, but Congress let it lapse at the end of 2021 – or rather, 50 Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin let it lapse at the end of 2021. Working families sure could have used it last year, and they sure could use it now, too. And frankly bringing it back should be a no-brainer – even for a Congress that all too frequently demonstrates it hasn’t a brain in the building.
Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass a wealth tax on the ultra-rich, and with a quickness. A recent Congressional Budget Office (or CBO) report told us what we all kinda knew already, that the richest one percent of Americans have increased their wealth by almost $30 trillion over the last 30 years; meanwhile the rest of us worry about getting slammed with surprise medical bills and wonder how much of the rent we can get away with not paying this month. So yeah, we’ve gotta change that, and it sure ain’t like taxing the rich harder polls badly! I guess all that’s left is for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D?-AZ) to intone for the 211th time that she won’t raise taxes on the rich because working families small businesses tough times Arizona I’m a maverick.
Finally, Daily Kos helps you tell your Senators to repeal the notorious 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force (or AUMF) in Iraq, which the last four Presidents have all used to justify all manner of military misadventures that have spilled our blood and treasure for the greater glory of American defense corporations. Sorry, in the absence of a strategy at least somewhat moored in reality, I must assume that’s why it still happens, and if we take away this AUMF, there’ll be less of it. And not to pile on, but that’s five words they’re using to say “wage war.” Why don’t they just say “wage war”? Couldn’t be a profound lack of courage, could it?
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