Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act and the American Stability 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.
Americans for Financial Reform helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act. I guess a bill with the words "stop Wall Street looting" could be about anything, but this bill concerns what happens when banksters buy corporations like Red Lobster and then suck all the money out of them like the vampires they are. The Stop Wall Street Looting Act, among other things, would prioritize workers, not shareholders, when corporations go bankrupt – which would pretty much take away banksters' incentive to do the whole saddle-them-with-debt-then-distribute-assets-to-shareholders two-step. Corporations wouldn't take care of workers unless you made them, so why would we expect more from banksters?
Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the American Stability Act, which would raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $20/hour and raise taxes on millionaire income. The bill would also raise the personal exemption on your income taxes to that same living wage of $20/hour, which means working families get a massive tax cut. (Rich people would get that cut, too, but it wouldn't help them nearly as much.) Of course I quibble with raising the rate on millionaire income only to 40% and the rate on income over $15 million to 43 percent. They both need to be 91%! Like they were back when we had a thriving middle class! But this bill would improve lives, and thus deserves our support.
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