Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to close bankster tax loopholes, stop using taxpayer money to bomb Palestinian civilians, and curb excessive CEO pay. 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.
Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Ending the Carried Interest Loophole Act. You know how banksters pay a lower tax rate than nurses and bus drivers? That’s because our laws allow them to declare the money they make managing other people’s accounts as investment income, and, as you know, our laws have taxed investment income at a lower rate than regular working families’ income since Tha Bush Mobb’s notorious second tax “reform” law. I always say income is income, but I know a few like-minded folks would want the first few grand of investment income taxed at a relatively low rate, as a way of encouraging working families to invest more. But not millions of dollars! That’s just getting over, and we shouldn’t allow rich people to get over.
MoveOn helps you tell our government to stop funding Israel’s bombing of civilians in Palestine with our tax dollars. Key phrase is “of civilians” – no one wants Hamas to flourish, but Israel’s mostly bombing civilians in Gaza, and that’s exactly the sort of thing helps Hamas flourish! I’d say it’s almost like that’s the whole idea but I’m pretty sure it is the whole idea. Imagine being Benjamin Netanyahu, finishing first in nail-biter elections but having to cobble together coalitions that collapse every year, which means more nail-biter elections. If your hold on power is that tenuous, what do you need most? An enemy. Or, you know, good works that make people want to vote for you. Anyway, we don’t need to support mass murder of civilians with our hard-earned money.
Finally, Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to do more to curb excessive CEO pay, particularly in the health insurance industry. Health insurance premiums outstrip inflation (yes, even 2021-22 inflation!) every year by absurd amounts, and what’s one big reason for that? The 10 highest-paid health insurance corporation CEOs earning over a billion dollars between them last year, that’s what! But do they earn that money with better services and better care? That is to laugh! We can curb CEO pay in lots of ways, like bringing back the 91% tax bracket on millionaire income. And if they call that “class warfare,” just remind them that their high costs wage actual class warfare on us every day of our lives. All so they can make more money than they’ll ever spend, money they can’t take to the Pearly Gates.
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