Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to reject to so-called “FAIR” tax, institute a billionaire’s income tax, and tax excessive corporate profits. 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.
Americans for Tax Fairness helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any effort to ram the so-called “FAIR” Tax down our throats. Democrats should be running a thousand attack ads saying instead of making the rich and corporations pay their fair share of taxes, Republicans want to make you pay 30% inflation on everything you buy! They could also say 60% inflation, since the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says we’ll need to institute that big a tax to make up for all the lost income, corporate, and estate taxes – all of which the “FAIR” Tax would repeal. Still, you could say all that to your House Rep. It’s all true.
Americans for Tax Fairness also helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass a billionaire’s minimum income tax. Which would not be a “100% tax” or whatever BS Donald Trump said that time, but a 2% tax on billionaire wealth. Really, this is the least they should do! We should be taxing the hell out of income over a million dollars so we don’t have obnoxious billionaires to begin with! And with fewer billionaires, we’ll have more millionaires, and we sure as hell will have more successful small businesses. All these things help a civilization! So we ought to fight for them, by first making the rich pay more of their fair share.
Finally, the Juggernaut Project helps you tell your Congressfolk to tax excessive corporate profits. When you have the highest inflation in 40 years and record corporate profits at the same time, you don’t need to be a Fulbright Scholar to see the connection. And a windfall corporate profits tax would allow us to impose a surcharge on all this corporate price-gouging, simply by measuring current profits against average profits for the last five years (or, possibly, by simply assessing a 4% surcharge on corporate profits, since inflation’s generally been around 2% and is now over 6%). However we do it, we’ve got to show CEOs that greed has consequences.
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