Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the American Stability Act, the Stop Wall Street Looting Act, and the ETHICS 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 pass the American Stability Act, which would (among other good works) raise taxes on the rich (though not as much as I would), raise the minimum wage to a $20/hour "cost of living" wage (which is a better way of putting it!), and expand the personal exemption to that $20/hour figure (resulting in a tax cut that would benefit working families considerably more than rich folks). I've already said what I'd fix (i.e., I'd create a 91% tax bracket for millionaire income like we had in the '50s), but the American Stability Act would make life better for most Americans, so we should pass it.
Americans for Financial Reform helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act, which would (among other good works!) prioritize workers, not shareholders, when winding down a bankrupt corporation, which all by itself would remove most of the incentive big banksters have when they try to kill a corporation with debt and then extract all the value of that corporation's husk for shareholders (i.e., themselves). You're seeing it with the end of Red Lobster – no, Red Lobster didn't die because of "endless shrimp" promotions but because hedge fund managers sold the land out from under them and made them lease it! Should civilized people stand for such shenanigans? No, we should not.
Finally, Win Without War helps you tell your Congressfolk to support the Ending Trading and Holdings In Congressional Stocks (or ETHICS) Act, which would (all together now: among other good works!) ban Congressfolk from ever holding or trading in stocks. Because a lot of corporations feed at the taxpayer teat, and Congress must make sure corporations don't waste that money – but how likely are they to do that job if they invest in the corporations they're overseeing? The answer is not very likely. Don't brook any nonsense about how you can trust Congressfolk to do the right thing, because trusting your elected officials is un-American. What's American, then? Holding your elected officials accountable, that's what.
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