Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Inclusive Democracy Act, the Stock Buyback Accountability Act, and the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination 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.
Common Cause helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Inclusive Democracy Act, which would end felony disenfranchisement across America. You know who wants to keep folks with felony convictions from voting? Folks who know our justice system is biased against Black and Brown folks and want to keep them from voting, folks who know that if everyone could vote they’d never win elections, and folks who want to look “tough on crime.” Now those are usually all the same folks! But a right only works if a) everyone has it and b) we enforce it. And a civilization only works if folks have rights.
Americans for Tax Fairness helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stock Buyback Accountability Act, which would increase the tax on stock buybacks – passed in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – from 1% to 4%. The 1% tax hasn’t discouraged rich executives from using corporate profits to concentrate nominally public stock in fewer hands, which is why it needs to go up. I really don’t want taxes to be onerous on anyone! I just know they have to be, on some people, or they’ll create a dystopian hellscape where they live in gated communities while we slave away just to pay our bills.
Finally, the Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act, which would raise SSI recipients’ asset limits have so they can have real breathing room. Currently SSI recipients can’t have more than $2,000 in total assets, but you know how many emergencies can steal two grand from you just like that, and that limit hasn’t gone up in over 30 years though inflation has gone up nearly 150% over that time. And if we’d indexed the limits to inflation in the ‘60s, the limits would be even higher than the bill would make them! So we know what we need to do.
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