Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stock Buyback Accountability Act and the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, and tell your Congressfolk to reject the so-called More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed 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.
Inequality Media helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stock Buyback Accountability Act, which would quadruple the tax on stock buybacks. They used to be illegal! But then the Reagan Revolution said of course we can trust executives not to abuse their power! They’re people, after all! Except we all know how people get when they get that kind of power, and if we didn’t know, we have 40-plus years of evidence telling us that executives buy back stock (and thus concentrate shareholder power in fewer hands) whenever they can, to the point where Apple now plans a $110 billion stock buyback spree. No corporation should have that kind of power! And too many of them do.
Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject to so-called More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed Act. You know how right-wingers want you to think they’re not just against anything that would make your life better? Here they’re pretending they really want to do something to help mothers succeed, without abortion. Of course the bill doesn’t do that – instead it diverts more taxpayer money, which is your money, to “crisis pregnancy centers” that take advantage of pregnant women to tell them noxious lies about abortion’s “effects” on their health. And sorry, but sometimes abortion is the “opportunity for moms to succeed.” I wish it weren’t, too, but it is.
Finally, Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, which would force our Supreme Court to adhere to the same ethics standards to which every other federal judge must adhere. Justice Thomas has lately been saying that Washington is a “nasty” place; don’t you hate it when people do evil and then complain that no one likes them? Maybe he should maybe stop contributing to that nastiness by accepting millions of dollars in gifts from folks who might have business before the Court! I mean, don’t conservatives want everyone to look to themselves first before complaining about how the world’s against them? Or is that only a rule for us?
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