Long story short: tell our FTC to fight junk fees, tell our CFPB to fight overdraft fees, and tell our Forest Service to preserve old-growth forests. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Demand Progress helps you tell our Federal Trade Commission (or FTC) to enact the most vigorous anti-junk fee rules possible. You’re no doubt sick of paying late fees and overdraft fees and “service” fees and “convenience” fees and “because we can” fees big corporations tack on to the price of tickets, hotels, and the like so you don’t know how much things really cost until it’s too late. Nobody but a boss likes them! But you best believe bosses will leave a lot of comments with our FTC about how they just can’t make money without junk fees! If a business can’t survive without junk fees, then it deserves to die.
In a related note, Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell our Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or CFPB) to enact the most vigorous anti-overdraft fee rules possible. Our CFPB has proposed limiting overdraft fees to their actual cost, meaning between $3 and $14, and not $35 or $45 or whatever banksters claim overdrafts “cost.” Banksters made almost $13 billion in overdraft fees in 2019 – nice work if you can get it! – and not for nothing, but 10% of all Americans get hit with 90% of all overdraft fees. And not because they’re “bad with money,” but because they don’t make enough money.
Finally, Environmental Action helps you tell our U.S. Forest Service to enact the most vigorous pro-old growth forest rules possible. Used to be anything that stood for any length of time awed us, because it was actually hard to build a mansion or a factory; now, nearly 80 years after Levittowns, landmarks routinely disappear before we can mourn them — and forests disappear rather faster than that. But rather than kill thousand-year-old trees to make things that won’t last, we should cultivate a little awe in our lives again. If we do that, we might help our civilization outlast us.
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