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John,
It’s no surprise that the GOP’s “11 Point Plan to Rescue America” attacks working families while protecting corporate tax cuts and billionaire tax cheats.
Authored by Sen. Rick Scott, the leader of the Senate’s 2022 election committee, the plan says NOTHING about making billionaires and corporations pay their fair share. Instead, it targets the millions of families who don’t make enough to pay income taxes, but who still pay their fair share in gas taxes, Social Security and Medicare taxes, and more.
Scott’s plan also makes good on one of the GOP’s most long-held agenda items: Privatize and slash government programs. That means critical programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid could be on the chopping block.
Read Frank’s email below for more details on Senator Scott’s and the Republicans’ plans to raise taxes on working people and slash their benefits too, and then pitch in today to reject their vision in favor of one that puts working families first.
We can’t stand for an agenda that takes from working families while letting billionaires get away with paying lower tax rates than nurses and teachers.
Thank you for all that you do.
Sarah Christopherson
Legislative and Policy Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
-- Frank's email --
John,
This week, Senator Rick Scott, a multimillionaire member of the Senate GOP leadership and chair of its election committee, released an 11-point plan to “rescue America” that Republicans will pursue if they win back power.[1]
At the top of his list: a tax increase on about 100 million lower-income Americans who don’t currently make enough money to pay federal income taxes (but pay Social Security, Medicare and other taxes). Of course, the 31-page plan does nothing to close tax loopholes and make billionaires and big corporations start paying their fair share of taxes.[2]
Instead, Scott’s plan for the country would slash IRS funding by 50%, ensuring that the IRS would not be able to audit rich and corporate tax cheats, protecting them from any accountability or consequence. Already the richest 1% are evading $160 billion in taxes each year.[2] And between 2010 and 2019, as funding to the IRS declined, IRS audit rates of millionaires declined by 71% and of large corporations by 54%.[3]
We need to stop this atrocious GOP plan dead in its tracks so we can build an economy that puts working families before billionaires and big corporations, not the other way around. Donate $5 today to reject Sen. Scott and the Senate GOP leadership’s attack on working families.
It’s clear from this plan that Senate GOP leaders' number one priority is protecting the rich and big corporations. They'll do whatever they can to make sure billionaires like Jeff Bezos and giant corporations like Amazon get away with paying little, if anything, in federal income taxes, all while targeting people like nurses caring for Covid patients, teachers educating our children, and working moms unable to afford childcare.
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When billionaire wealth is soaring and corporate profits are through the roof, we need leaders in Congress to propose plans to make them pay their fair share of taxes—not make 100 million working people who are struggling to afford everyday living expenses pay more federal taxes. Donate today to help us reject this plan.
Frank Clemente
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] “Rick Scott Unveils an 11-Point Agenda That Includes Tax Hikes for Millions,” Yahoo!, Feb. 22, 2022
[2] “An 11-Point Plan to Rescue America,” U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), Feb. 22, 2022
[3] “The Case for a Robust Attack on the Tax Gap,” U.S. Department of the Treasury, Sep. 7, 2021
[4] “Congress Needs to Take Two Steps to Fund the IRS for the Short and Long Term,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 1, 2022
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