Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to repeal the Comstock Act, make Social Security better, and pass the Ultra Millionaire Tax 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.
Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to repeal the Comstock Act, which literally prohibits our Postal Service from mailing anything abortion-related. As you might expect, it’s a very old law, one so old that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals essentially neutered it in 1936 (ruling that if a doctor orders any abortion-related material, then our Postal Service can’t simply refuse to send it). Think today’s Supreme Court will adhere to that 88-year-old precedent? I kid, of course. Hence we tell our Congressfolk to repeal the law – and work to remove them if they don’t.
Social Security Works helps you tell your Congressfolk to “scrap the cap” (preventing income over $168,600 from being taxes into the system) and expand Social Security benefits. People say blogs are useless, but they’re dead wrong, not just because blogs were the only media outlets that would air dissent about the Iraq War back in 2002 and 2003, but because the push to expand Social Security started on Duncan “Atrios” Black’s famous blog, Eschaton, about 10 years ago. And if we worked for it, paid for it, fought for it, and deserve to enjoy it when we get old, then why can’t it be better?
Finally, Public Citizen helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Ultra Millionaire Tax Act, which would not only impose a wealth tax on folks worth more than $50 million, but would give our IRS more funds to go after those who try to avoid the tax. The tax itself wouldn’t be very big – a 2% tax on wealth more than $50 million but less than $1 billion, and 3% on wealth above that – but that kind of money could fund all kinds of good services that our government could provide. It wouldn’t even put these rich folks out! And believe me, I’d put them out a lot more if it were only up to me. But I don’t let the perfect murder the good, and the Ultra Millionaire Tax Act is good.
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