Rich people and profitable big businesses escape taxes. We must TAX RICH PEOPLE + BIG BUSINESSES!

Since the 1970s extreme conservatives — including those in big business — have become very aggressive in building political power.  The Powell Memo (if you don’t know what it is, a web search will quickly tell you) and extremely rich people led to the creation of very conservative and right-wing “think tanks” and media and organizing within the Republican Party.
Now they have taken over the Republican Party and the U.S. government:  Congress, the Executive Branch (including cabinet members and agency heads), and the Supreme Court.
Part of their agenda has been to slash taxes for rich people and big business.  This was partly in order to directly serve themselves (and the Republicans’ “political base”) and partly in order to starve government until it would be small enough to “drown in a bathtub,” as Grover Norquist has memorably advocated.

 

Liberals and Progressives must reverse that!  We must RAISE TAXES on rich people and big businesses!

 

After Trump’s massive cut in taxes, 60 of the biggest companies paid ZERO taxes for 2018:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/60-biggest-companies-paid-no-taxes_n_5cb01f75e4b0ffefe3ae2626?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__Politics__041219

 

Robert Reich breaks down the 12 biggest myths about raising taxes on the rich:

https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/robert-reich-breaks-down-the-12-biggest-myths-about-raising-taxes-on-the-rich/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=75

 

SIGN THIS PETITION TO HOLD CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE:

On income tax day (April 15, 2019) a progressive labor union (www.cwa-union.org) sent an e-mail denouncing the Trump/Republican tax cut as a scam that hurt ordinary people and give billions of dollars to big business, and urging people to sign this petition telling Congress to bring corporate CEOs to testify to Congress about what they did with the money that Trump and the Republicans promised would be invested in new jobs:  https://www.actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-investigate-where-billions-in-tax-breaks-went?link_id=2&can_id=1d662460c0abb8939c5044c82927552b&source=email-guess-who-got-a-massive-tax-break-this-year-2&email_referrer=email_529586&email_subject=guess-who-got-a-massive-tax-break-this-year

 

SIGN PETITION TO REPEAL THE TRUMP TAX SCAM:

On April 2, 2019, CREDO Action sent an e-mail about the Trump/Republican tax scam they passed in December 2019.  The e-mail urges you to SIGN A PETITION TO REPEAL IT.  The e-mail said that — despite Trump’s huge promises — the White House just admitted it won’t actually deliver long-term growth.  The admission was buried in the Trump regime’s latest economic forecast.  SIGN THIS PETITION TO TELL DEMOCRATS TO REPEAL IT:  https://act.credoaction.com/sign/repeal-trump-tax-scam-2019/?t=9&akid=32137%2E8825164%2ERNTJXF

 

SIGN THIS PETITION URGING CONGRESS TO REPEAL the Trump/Republican tax scam:

Sign the petition here:  https://action.momsrising.org/sign/Repeal_TaxScam/?t=5&akid=11898%2E2331446%2E6JaD3m

 

HERE IS ANOTHER PETITION TO SIGN TO REPEAL IT:

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-this-petition-to-demand-congress-repeal-the-trump-gop-tax-scam-for-the-rich?source=2019SWRepealTaxScamPA&referrer=group-progress-america&link_id=0&can_id=1d662460c0abb8939c5044c82927552b&email_referrer=email_505991&email_subject=sign-up-repeal-the-tax-scam

 

SUPPORT S. 647, the “Tax Wall Street Act of 2019.” (After this info see the link for signing a petition.)

Public Citizen (www.citizen.org) urges people to support this federal legislation to place a tiny fee (one-tenth of one percent) on stock, bond and derivative transactions. It would generate more than $750 billion over the next decade — allowing us to make major new investments in American communities. For instance, the Wall Street tax could pay for:
• 1.2 million elementary school teachers for one year
• 1.8 million infrastructure jobs created for one year
• 1.4 million clean energy jobs created for one year
• Medical care for 9.7 million military veterans for one year
• Full four-year scholarships to three million low-income students
Also, by taxing these transactions, it would reduce the volatile trading that endangers economic stability. It would reduce risky casino-like trading.
SIGN THIS PETITION TO URGE YOUR U.S. SENATORS: Please co-sponsor the Wall Street Tax Act of 2019, which would raise nearly $777 billion over 10 years. Please remove my name and contact information and substitute your own: https://publiccitizen.salsalabs.org/wallsttax/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=5fd7d98d-9a4d-4e4e-8145-f4d69304613a

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org