Friend,

Wow— in less than 24 hours our petition demanding a Billionaires Tax has gained more than 1000 signatures. Can you help us reach our goal of 1600 signatures by adding your name here?

Last night we crashed Governor Cuomo’s $20,000 a plate birthday fundraiser with a crowd of activists and a cake that read: #MakeBillionairesPay.

Our party theme was light hearted but our message was serious. The Governor shouldn’t be hobnobbing with people who can spend two-thirds of a minimum wage worker’s annual salary on a single party ticket.

Billionaires and the ultra wealthy have had control of our government for far too long. And they’ve used it to stack the deck in their favor. We need a Green New Deal, a Homes Guarantee, Fully Funded Public Schools and Free College and we need a Billionaires Tax to pay for it. Click here to sign our petition.

New York has more Billionaires than any other place in the world. And 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.

Billionaires are too dangerous to exist. It’s time we make them pay to clean up the crises they’ve exploited to amass their outsized profits. Click here and join us in telling our elected officials that we need to make billionaires pay.

Best,

Alicé Nascimento, NYCC