Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act, expand the IRS Direct File program, and pass the Stock Buyback Accountability 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.
Public Citizen helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act, which would address several kinds of corporate tax dodging, like headquartering in the Cayman Islands and sucking up tax money while shipping jobs overseas. Remember when Barack Obama made ending tax breaks for outsourcing corporations one of the pillars of his job creation program, and every single Republican in the Senate voted against it? How did any of those dolts get re-elected? I kid, of course – they got re-elected because Democrats (including President Obama) didn’t fight that hard for it afterward. Let’s make sure they don’t make the same mistake again by communicating our will clearly and forcefully.
Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to increase IRS funding so they can expand the IRS Direct File program. Virtually every other nation on Earth lets its citizens file their taxes directly with their government for free, but not us! Apparently we’re not happy until some undeserving corporation is overcharging us to do the same thing! Now House Republicans have been throwing tantrums about IRS funding going up at all under President Biden (which hasn’t exactly worked out for them electorally, but I digress), so you know they won’t want to do this, either. But if we all speak out, they’ve got two choices: do our will, or ignore us. Know anyone who likes being ignored?
Finally, Inequality Media helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stock Buyback Accountability Act, which would quadruple the stock buyback tax in America. That tax needs quadrupling, now that Apple plans to spend $110 billion on stock buybacks that reduce shareholder power, increase executive power, and make products and processes and infrastructure worse. Robert Reich reminds me of one more problem with stock buybacks: big corporate executives never pay taxes on the stocks they buy, because they never cash them out! And less tax money means, as you know, less public investment in libraries, cops, bridges, and other services we all use. So we know what we have to do.
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