Friend--

Tonight, Governor Cuomo is throwing a $20,000 per plate luxury birthday fundraiser in Central Park South. We will be there to deliver a birthday cake and a message: #MakeBillionairesPay.

New York has more billionaires than any other place in the country. Through worker exploitation, legal tricks and speculation, billionaires have seized control over entire industries and gained outsized political influence in our democracy.

Tell Governor Cuomo that New York needs a Homes Guarantee, a Green New Deal, Fully Funded Public Schools and Free College—and a Billionaires Tax to pay for it.

A new report¹ shows that the majority of New York’s 84 billionaires are donors to Governor Cuomo’s campaign. These donors have made their riches from industries driving inequality and destroying our planet -- fossil fuels, real estate, predatory finance.

Our elected officials are more accountable to rich donors than to the people they represent. Dozens of Cuomo’s billionaire donors have direct interests in state tax and regulatory policies.

What is clear is that we must re-balance the scales. Billionaires are too dangerous to exist.

Join our movement to make billionaires pay back the wealth they’ve extracted from our communities.

Across the globe, working people are standing up against the ultra rich and the governments that do their bidding--- clanging pots and pans, naming names and making noise. We are joining this global movement.

Tonight is just the beginning. New Yorkers are demanding billionaires answer for their crimes: Exploiting the climate crisis; the student debt crisis; the homelessness crisis; the opioid epidemic, and more.

We're exposing the billionaire class. We're hounding them on the streets. We’re demanding policies and special taxes that reign in their predatory behavior.

It’s time for justice. Name names. Make noise. #MakeBillionairesPay

Click here and join us.

Best,

Alicé Nascimento

Director of Research & Policy

New York Communities for Change