John,
Every dollar of revenue not raised from the rich and corporations is a dollar not invested back in working families. Already, more than 10,000 people have taken action, demanding Congress make the full $3.5 trillion investment in President Biden’s Build Back Better plan.
With just one week until U.S. House committees submit their components of the plan that will be voted on at the end of this month, time is running out to demand Congress go big and bold.
Can you write to your U.S. senators and representative today and demand the full $3.5 trillion investment in our future? These critical investments in everything from affordable healthcare to jobs, families and children can be paid for by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share.
Right now, members of Congress are under intense pressure from corporate lobbyists who are attempting to protect every tax loophole and corporate carve out currently being enjoyed by large profitable corporations.[1] It’s up to us to defeat them with people power!
Did you know that last year, 55 Fortune 500 companies paid $0 in federal income tax on $40.5 billion in profits, including name brands Nike and Hewlett-Packard?[2] But, we know that when corporations and the wealthy start paying their fair share in taxes, we can expand Medicare to include dental, hearing and vision; and we can provide the monthly $250 - $300 Child Tax Credit payments to tens of millions of working families.
The money is there. We just need Congress to show the political will and act!
Click here to send a message to your U.S. senators and representative demanding they go BIG and fully fund the ten-year $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan and make a once-in-a-generation investment in working families and our future.
Thank you,
Sarah Christopherson
Legislative and Policy Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] "Corporate America launches massive lobbying blitz to kill key parts of Democrats’ $3.5 trillion economic plan," The Washington Post, August 31, 2021
[2] "55 Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on 2020 Profits," Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, April 2, 2021
