Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Protect Our CREDIT Act, raise corporate taxes, and tax private jet usage harder. 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 pass the Protect Our CREDIT Act, which would allow our President to raise the debt limit as necessary. Because Republicans constantly try to hold us all hostage with the debt limit, so they can cut services we all pay for and depend upon! I hate giving Presidents more power, but you know what I hate even more? Politicians who take us hostage so they can hurt us. And no, it wouldn’t violate Article I, Section 7 of our Constitution, which says “All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives”; the debt limit isn’t about "raising Revenue" so much as the revenue already raised and spent.
In a peripherally-related note, Americans for Tax Fairness helps you tell your Congressfolk to raise, not cut, corporate taxes. Yes, corporations are also using the debt limit to extract more corporate welfare they couldn’t extract without a hostage crisis; the link above lists some of those. And none of the little accounting tricks on corporate wish lists create jobs – seriously, can anyone argue that letting corporations write off assets 10 years in advance “creates jobs”? No, they cannot – they just enable corporate executives to redistribute yet more of your hard-earned income upward to themselves. Republicans sure do enjoy giving us the back of their hand, but we don’t have to take it.
Finally, in another peripherally-related note, Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to tax private jet usage harder, not least because that’s about the most wasteful form of travel there is. Problem, of course, is too many Congressfolk have either taken rides in private jets or have private jets! Clearly they don’t understand the whole idea of serving the people. But private jets now make up about one-sixth of all flights while contributing very little to our Federal Aviation Administration, plus they use runways and airports paid for by what? Taxpayer dollars, that’s what. And these planes just piss out carbon emissions. So yeah, we’ve got to tax them harder.
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