SIGN OUR LETTER calling on Congress to #TaxtheRich this Tax Day in order
to pay for childcare and paid family/medical leave.
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Dear Friend,
Today is Tax Day (Hey did you file your taxes yet??) and we have a BIG
message for Congress: [ [link removed] ]Families shouldn’t be the only ones to pay taxes.
Make sure you also tax the super wealthy and mega corporations in order to
pay for childcare, paid leave, and care for the aging and people with
disabilities!
Our plan is quite simple: we need the Congress to make the super rich and
big corporations pay their fair share in taxes so our families can get the
policies they need and deserve.
[ [link removed] ]SIGN OUR LETTER to Congress calling on them to #TaxtheRich this Tax
Day!
All of us will need to care for ourselves or a loved one at some point in
our lives. Care work is the work upon which all other work depends, and
which holds up our economy. But care costs too much for families to
afford, even as care workers – overwhelmingly women and disproportionately
women of color – are not paid enough to support themselves and their own
families. Individuals and families can’t solve the care crisis on their
own. We need to treat care as a public good, which requires public
investments passed by our leaders in Congress.
The truth is our economy will not be able to fully recover and thrive if
moms, women and caretakers continue to be crushed by the lack of
investments in the care economy. Corporations and the wealthy have
benefited from women’s underpaid and undervalued labor and from our
antiquated and inequitable tax laws–not to mention making tons of money
and thriving during COVID while our families could barely keep their heads
above water. In fact, many of America’s top companies saw record profits
during the height of the pandemic but rather than raising the wages of
their workers, they passed those profits on to their shareholders. [1] And
two years into the COVID pandemic found U.S.’s billionaires 57% richer!
[2]
All of these reasons are why the super wealthy and big corporations should
be required to pay their fair share in taxes!
[ [link removed] ]SIGN OUR LETTER now calling on Congress to use this Tax Day as a
starting point to make sure the super wealthy and big corporations pay
their fair share in taxes in order to fund the care economy!
A number of lawmakers have said that it’s too expensive to make
investments in care policies but we know that’s not true – in fact the
opposite is true because studies show that investing in the care
infrastructure helps create jobs, boost businesses and the economy, and
help address supply chain issues. And we absolutely can raise revenues to
support care investments by making sure the wealthy and big corporations
pay a fairer share of taxes. In fact, we’ve already done it! The Inflation
Reduction Act, which passed last year, showed that we can raise revenues
(by guaranteeing wealthy corporations pay more of their fair share in
taxes) and make historic investments in health care and to address climate
change.
We can build on this recent success and help all our families thrive.
There are dozens of ways to raise more federal revenues and make the tax
code fairer and more equitable. For example, if Congress passes the
Billionaire Minimum Income Tax we would have enough money for all workers
to have 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. We could also pay for
free child care for 16 million children and provide fair wages for
childcare workers.
There is so much we can do when we #TaxtheRich! Don’t forget to sign our
letter to Congress now and then forward this email to your friends and
family and [ [link removed] ]post our action link on social media so everyone you know
can take action too!
Thank you for taking action for our children and families!!
- Elyssa, Donna, Kristin, Hanna, and the whole MomsRising.org &
MamásConPoder Team
References:
[1] [ [link removed] ]“Profits and the pandemic: As shareholder wealth soared, workers
were left behind.” Brookings. April 21, 2022.
[2] [ [link removed] ]“After 2 years of COVID, US billionaires are $1.7 trillion, ot 57%
richer.” Americans for Tax Fairness, March 11, 2022.
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