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John,
The billionaires and special interests may have won this round in the Senate, as Senator Joe Manchin rejects a tax and investment plan that would have made the rich and corporations pay a lot more in taxes, but we’ve succeeded in changing the conversation around kitchen tables.
Thanks to our work together, a majority of Americans support a Billionaires Income Tax and believe it’s time for the wealthy and corporations to pay more of their fair share.[1] But unless we make our voices heard in Congress, too many of our elected officials will think that they can simply ignore the will of the American people without consequence. And it’s not just Joe Manchin who’ll be watching how the public reacts.
If you haven’t already, call your senators today and voice your displeasure that the Senate isn’t going to pass a tax and investment plan that begins to unrig our tax system and level the playing field for working families.
Call your senators toll free at 855-740-2519.
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Call script:
My name is ________ from [city/town]. I am very unhappy that the Senate will not be passing a major economic plan that would lower healthcare and other costs for working families, reduce child poverty and shift us to a clean energy economy―paid for by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share of taxes. It’s time for you to show that you are on the side of working families, not with wealthy special interests who have helped kill this economic plan.
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After fighting for critical investments in our future including climate, economic, and housing justice, we are outraged that Senator Manchin’s obstruction has dealt a blow to our agenda for change. But, as Martin Luther King, Jr. reminded us, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Call your senators today, and then keep fighting for the future we know is possible.
Sarah Christopherson
Legislative and Policy Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] “Polling Compilation: Billionaires Income Tax,” March 21, 2022
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John,
Last week, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia single-handedly killed the trillion-dollar investment and tax plan Democrats have been working on for a year. The plan, a version of which had already passed the House last November, would have started to reverse 40 years of trickle-down tax breaks for the rich and corporations while raising money to make healthcare more affordable and to accelerate the transition to a clean-energy economy to combat climate change and reduce family energy costs.
Congress should NOT be protecting tax breaks and special loopholes for billionaires and CEOs; they need to be standing up for working people. They need to know we are very unhappy that this historic opportunity to begin to unrig the tax system and use the revenue to create an economy that works for all of us has been stymied―for now.
Please call your U.S. senators today and tell them to put the interests of working families ahead of their wealthy campaign donors:
Call your senators toll free at 855-740-2519.
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Call script:
My name is ________ from [city/town]. I am very unhappy that the Senate will not be passing a major economic plan that would lower healthcare and other costs for working families, reduce child poverty and shift us to a clean energy economy―paid for by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share of taxes. It’s time for you to show that you are on the side of working families, not with wealthy special interests who have helped kill this economic plan.
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Senators need to know WE are watching as wealthy special interests too often determine what gets done in Washington, and that we’re not going to stand for it. Please call your U.S. senators today!
If you can’t call, pitch in today to fight to unrig our economy and our tax code and demand Congress put working people first!
Thank you for never giving up, and fighting to put the needs of working people ahead of the greed of millionaires and billionaires.
Frank Clemente
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
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