SIGN OUR LETTER calling on President Biden and Congress to make permanent
working family tax credits like the EITC and Child Tax Credit and to make
sure the wealthy and mega-corporations pay their fair share in taxes!
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Dear Friend,

We are moving full steam ahead on making sure our elected leaders pass
universal childcare, paid leave for all, help for struggling families and
working people, and creating a fairer tax code for women, moms, families,
and everyone impacted by structural racism.

But all of that takes [1]💵💵💵. That’s why it’s a perfect time to make sure
the wealthy and mega-corporations are paying their fair share!

[ [link removed] ]We need you to speak out and make your voice heard!

[ [link removed] ]***SIGN OUR LETTER calling on President Biden and Congress to make
permanent working family tax credits like the EITC and Child Tax Credit
and to make sure the wealthy and mega-corporations pay their fair share in
taxes!

We have a lot we need to achieve if we want to fully recover from the
COVID-19 pandemic and build back better. Congress and the White House are
hard at work putting together a recovery package now that they passed the
excellent American Rescue Plan. But you and I both know it’s not enough to
go back to where we were. Even before COVID, women, especially women of
color, were set up to fail in our economy due to structural racism and
rampant gender discrimination. We can’t ignore the deep structural
flaws in our economy and country that made the pandemic disproportionately
devastating for moms, women of color and their families, and expect an
equitable recovery.  

One area that moms, women, low-income families, and people impacted by
structural racism  harmed time and time again is our unfair tax code. But
how can we make our tax code more equitable and our nation’s economy more
successful? First, we need to make permanent the expansions of the EITC
and Child Tax Credit we won in the American Rescue Plan.

These changes are a big deal and are a giant reason to celebrate⎯ and will
help bring 50% of our nation’s children out of poverty! We need to make
these changes permanent! Those improvements made the full Child Tax Credit
available to all children except those with families who have the highest
incomes (sometimes called making the credit “fully refundable”), increased
the Child Tax Credit to $3,600 for families with kids under 6 and $3,000
for families with kids 7-17 (that’s a lot of money!), and made an expanded
EITC available to far more low-paid childless workers—the majority of whom
are women who are still helping support their families and grandchildren
but are taxed into poverty year after year. [1]

This had giant results⎯ just the improvements to the Child Tax Credit in
the American Rescue Plan cuts childhood poverty in half! [2] We need to
keep that momentum going by making these expansions permanent!

But we can’t stop there! Millionaires, billionaires, and corporations must
pay their fair share of taxes. Right now our tax code is penalizing
low-income people at the same time the super wealthy and big corporations
are flourishing and working families are struggling with unemployment,
lost wages, and the ravages of a public health crisis. 

Rather than cut supports that families turn to when times are tough, and
that boost our nation’s economy, we should raise revenue to invest in our
shared success by making the mega-wealthy pay their fair share in
taxes. How do we do that? Easy! Congress can start by overturning the
terrible Trump Tax Plan which gave away trillions of dollars to the 1% and
mega-corporations. We also can pass Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax
which would only raise taxes on the 0.05% of highest earners in the
country but would net over $3 trillion over ten years, which we could use
to create a universal childcare system, build more schools, or help feed
and house struggling families. [3] A wealth tax is a wildly popular
idea—in fact 3 in 5 Americans support it, including a majority of
Republicans! [ [link removed] ]

[4]***Sign our letter now calling on Congress and the White House to
rewrite our unfair tax code so everyone can access the programs their
families need and the 1% and mega-corporations pay their fair share!

In order to make this happen we need your help. Please sign this petition,
reach out to your member of Congress, and share this action link around to
create momentum that builds the political will to do all these important
things because we know that this is the real way we build back better and
make sure our families have what we need while making sure those who have
struggled the most can benefit from a recovered economy. In short, your
help is needed in demanding the resources we deserve and need to put us on
the path to shared prosperity! (Thank you, in advance, for signing on
right now which is a big help!)

Women are the backbone of the economy. We need large-scale public
investments in the care infrastructure that makes all other
work possible including childcare, paid family and medical leave, a
pathway to citizenship for immigrant frontline workers, investments in
caregiving options for people with disabilities and aging adults, and
permanent expansions of the EITC and Child Tax Credit – to ensure
that families can care for their loved ones in times of critical need, and
that all people who are doing work in the care infrastructure are are paid
living wages. Women deserve economic security, fair pay, and the
opportunity to create a brighter future for ourselves and our families.

But in order to do all of this we need our government to make sure
millionaires, billionaires, and mega-corporations—many of whom have seen a
windfall during the pandemic—pay their fair share! You heard me right—it’s
time to tax the rich in order to pay for the programs our families and
economy so desperately need to fully recover and to boost our economy!

[ [link removed] ]Make sure to sign our letter now and after you are done forward this
email to your friends and family and ask them to sign as well. We are
going to create a huge movement to get these important policies passed to
boost our families and our economy!

Thank you for speaking out and making a difference!

-Elyssa, Kristin, Donna, and the entire MomsRising/MamasConPoder team

[1] [ [link removed] ]“American Rescue Plan Act Includes Critical Expansions of Child Tax
Credit and EITC.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

[2] [ [link removed] ]“The American Rescue Plan Could Cut Child Poverty Nearly in Half.”
The Century Foundation.

[3] [ [link removed] ]“Warren, Jayapal , Boyle, Introduce Ultra-Millionaire Tax on
Fortunes Over $50 Million.”

[4] [ [link removed] ]“Warren Revives Wealth Tax, Citing Pandemic Inequalities.” New York
Times.


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