Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to reject cuts to programs America needs just to fund yet more tax cuts for the rich, and tell your Congressfolk to specifically reject cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps. 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 Tax Fairness helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any legislation that cuts services good Americans need in order to pay for yet more tax cuts for the rich and for corporations. They want to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, veterans' health care, renewable energy infrastrucure, and many more things that benefit all Americans – all so the rich and corporations can have yet more unearned money. No one believes supply-side arguments anymore, so they'll either lecture us about "living within our means," or they’ll simply deny what they're doing. Neither one of those things justifies more stupid tax cuts for folks who don't need them and who hurt us every day of our lives.
Social Security Works helps you tell your Congressfolk to specifically reject any effort to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. They need to hear us generally about tax cuts for the rich, but they also need to hear us specifically about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Our President-elect said he'd never make such cuts, but you cannot believe a promise that man makes – why, he proposed Social Security and Medicare cuts in every budget he put out, and during the pandemic tried to stop collecting payroll taxes. Naturally our Vice President-elect and many Congressional Republicans have also said they'll try to cut these programs. So we need to get in their grills about all of that.
Finally, the Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any cuts to food stamps. The food stamp program was a TFG whipping boy during his first Administration, and you can see why: too many Americans still think of food stamps as something Those Other People Get. But they're not! White folks comprise almost 63% of food stamp recipients, for example, and really, Americans need to grow up about this shit – any of us might fall on hard times, and thus need food stamps, at any time, so we should ensure we have a vigorous, well-funded food stamp program, not just for other folks, but for ourselves.
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