John,
GOP extremists are moving full steam ahead with their scheme to gut critical services for working families to bankroll tax cuts for the ultra-rich. With a budget resolution vote expected as early as next week, it’s clear where their priorities lie and it’s not with the people.
Let’s be blunt: Republicans want to slash funding for healthcare, housing, education, and food assistance so they can shovel trillions in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy―the same billionaire class that already pays lower tax rates than everyday working people.[1]
These attacks are nothing new. Trump’s 2017 tax law slashed the corporate tax rate, exploded the deficit, and delivered a windfall to billionaires while leaving working Americans with crumbs. Now, Republicans in Congress want to double down on that disaster by making those tax cuts permanent and paying for it by slashing the services that millions of Americans rely on to survive.[2]
We’re not going to let them get away with it. With your help, we can flood congressional inboxes with a message they can’t ignore: DO NOT slash services for working people to fund billionaire tax cuts.
Take action now to send a message to Congress: don’t cut essential services to give handouts to billionaires.
Trump and congressional Republicans have created a manufactured crisis. The federal deficit isn’t the result of social spending, it’s the direct result of massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and the refusal to fully fund the IRS to make sure the rich pay what they owe.
The richest 1% now control more wealth than the entire middle class combined. Yet GOP leaders want to gut programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and housing assistance―programs that keep families afloat―so they can hand even more cash to the billionaires hoarding our nation’s prosperity.
Don’t let them tell you this is about “hard choices.” It’s a choice between serving the many or catering to the few. It’s a choice between protecting our communities or padding billionaire bank accounts.
Every cut they propose is a political choice. And every dollar handed to the wealthy instead of being invested in healthcare, housing, education, or nutrition assistance is a moral failure. They are choosing to let children go hungry, seniors go without medicine, and students drown in debt just to keep their billionaire backers happy.
Congress needs to hear from all of us right now before a potential vote next week. Stop the cuts. Stop the giveaways. Start serving the people. Demand a budget that invests in people, not billionaires.
Together, we can stop this cynical wealth grab and fight for a budget that serves working families, not billionaire donors.
David Kass
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] House Republicans unveil blueprint to advance Trump’s agenda
[2] Continuing low tax rates for the rich and corporations will hurt working families
