Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to stop corporate price-gouging, start clamping down on cryptocurrency, and pass the Youth Voting Rights 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.
Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to stop corporate price-gouging. Specifically, you’d advocate they pass H.R. 7443/S. 3933, the Ending Corporate Greed Act, and H.R. 8777, the Competitive Prices Act; the former bill would tax excess profits, while the latter would give our state and federal governments more tools to fight coordinated price hikes. Inflation has shot up over the last two years, and corporate profits have also shot up over the last two years; you know the relationship between these two events just as well as I do, even if politicians and corporate executives pretend they don’t. So we need these bills.
Americans for Financial Reform helps you tell your Congressfolk to clamp down on cryptocurrency. You don’t need to have witnessed all the crypto corporations collapsing lately to know that crypto is horseshit, especially when you can get money out of an ATM anywhere on Earth now. But precisely because we live in an America where hard work doesn’t get you more money anymore, good Americans still find themselves susceptible to crypto’s promises, just as they’re susceptible to any get-rich-quick scheme. Well, our laws protect good Americans from get-rich-quick schemes, and they should protect us from crypto, too.
Finally, Rise helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass H.R. 8341/S. 4500, the Youth Voting Rights Act. The Youth Voting Rights Act would help expand youth turnout by (among other things) mandating on-campus polling places and letting students use their student ID as voter ID. And remember that folks who say “voting should be hard” are just fouling the air with testosterone – and obscuring the fact that voting is the beginning, not the end, of our duty as citizens, I wonder why they’d do that? And personal to those who think young people “vote wrong”: have you tried, maybe, attracting the youth vote by not appealing to the absolute worst aspects of human nature?
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