TELL CONGRESS: Elon Musk is funding his own right-wing super PAC. He’s union busting. His company, SpaceX, has won billions in defense contracts. He has too much political power because he has too much money. Sign the petition: Tax Elon Musk to ensure he pays his fair share!
Hi, Elon Musk is funding his own right-wing super PAC. He’s union busting. He’s playing dangerous games with Twitter and plowing ahead with billions of dollars in defense contracts between SpaceX and the federal government. And Trump recently said that he’d consider Musk for a Cabinet position.1 Musk is a billionaire with way too much influence in our political system. While his super PAC backs Trump2 and he exploits workers at his three mega-corporations, he’s making more and more money. Elon Musk has too much political power because he has too much money. Congress must change the tax code and ensure billionaires like Musk are paying their fair share! Musk is benefitting from a broken American tax system that favors billionaires and their corporations. When a few billionaires can manipulate our political system, it threatens our democracy. The ultra-rich and corporations are paying less in taxes since the Trump tax cuts were passed in 2017. The Trump administration’s signature tax policy slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, and created huge loopholes that are allowing America’s largest corporation to pay WAY less in taxes.3 The power of billionaires threatens workers, consumers, voters, and every facet of a democratic society. Congress must rein in Musk by raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy and corporations. Thanks for taking action, Sources:
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