Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to make rich folks pay their fair share into Social Security, pass the Shrinkflation Prevention Act, and repeal the Comstock 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.
Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to make millionaires and billionaires pay more of their fair share of Social Security taxes, so we can expand the trust fund’s life and even expand benefits. Our “liberal” media will be all Henny-Penny over the latest Social Security trustees report, but I’m old enough to remember when Social Security was supposed to run out of money in 2016. Long story short, it hasn’t. But folks don’t pay into the system on income over $168,600, and if we want Social Security to be even better, we have to start making them do that. Really, it won’t hurt them.
Patriotic Millionaires also helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Shrinkflation Prevention Act, and thus allow our Federal Trade Commission (or FTC) to go after corporations that shrink package sizes or quantities as a “deceptive trade practice.” Paper towels now cost almost 35% more than they did five years ago – but almost a third of that price hike comes from corporations making the rolls and packages smaller! Pass the Shrinkflation Prevention Act and we can get our FTC to stop it – which won’t have much effect in the short run, but will in the long run, once corporations realize it’ll cost them to play packaging tricks on us.
Finally, UltraViolet helps you tell your Congressfolk to repeal the Comstock Act, a law over 150 years old that would prevent our Postal Service from delivering any abortion-related material (including mifepristone, misopropol, and birth control pills) through the mail – but a law also made a dead letter by our Second Circuit Court of Appeals almost 80 years ago, when they ruled the Comstock Act couldn’t be enforced against any material a doctor specifically ordered. Think our Supreme Court will respect that? I kid, of course – now they’ll get all literal about the law, and to hell with a woman’s rights, or even a doctor’s rights! Hence we must communicate our will to our Congressfolk until they bend to it.
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