John,
In order to make new investments in healthcare, education, housing, childcare, infrastructure, clean renewable energy and more, we need a Fair Share Tax system where the wealthy and corporations do their part.
Recently, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reaffirmed that the Trump-GOP tax scam will lose $1.9 trillion over ten years. That’s money that should be used to support the needs of working families and to strengthen our communities, not line the pockets of the wealthy and fatten the profits of giant corporations.
To turn this around, we need Congress to pass the Millionaires Surtax, which would place an additional 10% tax on the richest 0.2% of Americans.
Read Frank’s email below for more details and then write to your members of Congress today urging them to become co-sponsors of the Millionaires Surtax, which would raise an additional $635 billion over ten years from the richest U.S. households.
Thank you for taking action today to address rising levels of income and wealth inequality and to invest in critical services for working families.
Mark Rickling
Policy and Legislative Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
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From: Frank Clemente
Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2019
Subject: Tell your members of Congress: Become a co-sponsor of the Millionaires Surtax!
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Tell Congress:
"Become a co-sponsor of the Millionaires Surtax to begin to make the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes so we can fund new investments in healthcare, education, housing, childcare, infrastructure and clean renewable energy."
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John,
We’ve entered what some have coined a new “gilded age” with income and wealth inequality reaching levels not seen since before the Great Depression. But we can turn that around with policies that close the widening gap between the rich and everyone else.
Now, there’s a new bill — the Millionaires Surtax — which does just that.
The Millionaires Surtax would place an additional 10-percentage point tax on all income above $2 million each year for married couples and above $1 million for individuals. The rest of us (the bottom 99.8% of households) wouldn’t pay an extra dime in taxes.
It’s time that millionaires and billionaires start paying their fair share in taxes!
Click here to send a message to your members of Congress and urge them to become co-sponsors of the Millionaires Surtax — S. 2809 in the Senate and H.R. 5043 in the House — to help close the gap between the rich and everyone else and allow us to fund investments that benefit working families.
According to recent polling by Hart Research, the Millionaires Surtax is supported by 73% of voters and over half of Republicans. And the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that this legislation would generate an additional $635 billion over ten years, which can be used to invest in critical services for working families.[1]
Recently, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reaffirmed that the Trump-GOP tax scam will lose $1.9 trillion over ten years. That’s money that should be used to support the needs of working families and to strengthen our communities, not line the pockets of the wealthy and fatten the profits of giant corporations.
That’s why, together, we must demand that Congress create a Fair Share Tax System, where the wealthy (and corporations) do their part. The first step is a Millionaires Surtax — an achievable goal in the near-term.
Write to your members of Congress and urge them to become a co-sponsor of the Millionaires Surtax to place an additional 10% tax on the incomes of the richest 0.2% of U.S. households.
This is how we begin to create an economy that works for all of us, not just the wealthy few.
Thank you,
Frank Clemente
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
