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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]
August 17, 2022 at 6:17 PM

Republicans know how popular this law will be. That’s why they’re spreading disinformation

Will you help counter GOP disinformation and rally support for the Inflation Reduction Act? John, Congressional Republicans are furious that Democrats have passed a bill that takes on the greed of Big Oil and Big Pharma while delivering for working people and seniors. They know h…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
August 16, 2022 at 5:32 PM

RE: Now that the Inflation Reduction Act has passed, here’s what’s next in our fight for tax fairness:

Next up: Let’s make the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax a big part of the midterm elections so we can pass it during the next session of Congress. John, Last week, we helped pass historic legislation that makes billionaire corporations pay more of their fair share and cracks down …
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
August 15, 2022 at 5:45 PM

Now that the Inflation Reduction Act has passed, here’s what’s next in our fight for tax fairness:

Next up: Let’s make the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax a big part of the midterm elections so we can pass it during the next session of Congress. John, The Inflation Reduction Act passed the House last week without a single Republican vote. That’s because while Republicans are ha…
  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]
August 13, 2022 at 2:38 PM

RE: You made this victory possible:

We have momentum to continue to unrig our tax code and invest in working families, but first we need to sell this new law to the American people. John, Yesterday, Democrats in the House passed the Inflation Reduction Act, and this historic bill is now headed to President Biden’s…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
August 12, 2022 at 11:09 PM

You made this victory possible:

We have momentum to continue to unrig our tax code and invest in working families, but first we need to sell this new law to the American people. John, You made this victory possible! It’s taken 40 years and multiple elections, but we are beginning to break the Republican fraud…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
August 10, 2022 at 2:52 PM

RE: [take action] Tell your U.S. House representative to pass the Inflation Reduction Act!

Thank you for never giving up. John, Voting margins in the House are incredibly narrow. Just a few Democrats could sink the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the Senate on Sunday by a single vote. If this legislation becomes law, it would represent a historic rebuke of 40 yea…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
August 9, 2022 at 7:15 PM

[take action] Tell your U.S. House representative to pass the Inflation Reduction Act!

Thank you for never giving up. John, Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act by the U.S. Senate on Sunday represents a historic moment, requiring some of the nation’s most profitable corporations and wealthiest citizens to begin to contribute a fairer share of taxes. It will be vo…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
August 5, 2022 at 8:03 PM

UPDATE: Sinema is on board; what’s in the bill?

Here’s what’s changed in the Senate bill: John, Your pressure is working! Late last night, Senator Kyrsten Sinema confirmed that she’ll support Democrats’ tax and investment plan to lower prescription drug costs, fight climate change and extend Affordable Care Act subsidies for 1…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
August 4, 2022 at 11:29 PM

Kyrsten Sinema’s objection to the bill reflects yet another concession to Wall Street millionaires

Sinema is threatening to unwind tax reforms requiring Wall Street money managers and billion-dollar corporations to pay a fairer share of taxes. John, Senate Democrats are getting close to passing a tax and investment plan that would make millionaires, billionaires, and corporati…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
August 3, 2022 at 2:51 PM

RE: Tell Congress: This plan lowers costs for millions of Americans, takes on corporate greed, fights the climate crisis and makes the rich and corporations pay a fairer share of taxes

Congressional Republicans do not support giving Medicare the ability to negotiate prescription drug costs. John, The Inflation Reduction Act will make corporations that are price-gouging the American people pay a fairer share of taxes so we can fight climate change, lower prescri…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
August 2, 2022 at 9:49 PM

Tell Congress: This plan lowers costs for millions of Americans, takes on corporate greed, fights the climate crisis and makes the rich and corporations pay a fairer share of taxes

Congressional Republicans do not support giving Medicare the ability to negotiate prescription drug costs. John, Senate Democrats have put forward the Inflation Reduction Act, which will be voted on later this week, that will fight climate change and lower healthcare and househol…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
July 31, 2022 at 3:32 PM

RE: [take action] we are so close to reining in Big Pharma’s greed

If Congress doesn’t act in the coming weeks, health insurance companies will hike healthcare premiums for the coming year, forcing millions of Americans to lose their healthcare. Tell Congress: “Extend ACA healthcare subsidies and don’t leave 2 million poor people uninsured!”…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 30, 2022 at 4:28 PM

Tell Congress: Extend ACA healthcare subsidies and don’t leave 2 million poor people uninsured!

If Congress doesn’t act in the coming weeks, health insurance companies will hike healthcare premiums for the coming year, forcing millions of Americans to lose their healthcare. John, Drug corporations have been ripping off the American people by price gouging consumers and dodg…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
July 29, 2022 at 4:33 PM

RE: In the 11th hour, our activism is paying off.

Last night Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced an agreement has been reached with Senator Manchin on three critical areas that we’ve been fighting for: John, The Senate is expected to vote next week on a tax and investment plan that includes three critical tax reforms …
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 28, 2022 at 9:04 PM

In the 11th hour, our activism is paying off.

Last night Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced an agreement has been reached with Senator Manchin on three critical areas that we’ve been fighting for: John, We never gave up. Each time Senator Joe Manchin rejected a tax and investment plan that would unrig our econom…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
July 27, 2022 at 4:41 PM

RE: [take action] Tell your member of Congress to become an original co-sponsor of the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax

This plan would raise at least $360 billion over ten years from America’s wealthiest 20,000 households―the richest 0.01%. Tell Your U.S. Representative: “Become an original co-sponsor of the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Act before it’s introduced this week.” SIGN &a…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 26, 2022 at 7:21 PM

[take action] Tell your member of Congress to become an original co-sponsor of the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax

This plan would raise at least $360 billion over ten years from America’s wealthiest 20,000 households―the richest 0.01%. John, Even with Senator Joe Manchin’s obstruction of President Biden’s tax and investment plan, Democrats aren’t giving up on implementing policies that make …
  Maura Quint · [email protected]
July 24, 2022 at 2:29 PM

RE: As billionaires buy elections and rig our laws, they amass even more wealth and power

Why did Joe Manchin flip on supporting a tax and investment plan that makes the rich pay their fair share and finally begins to combat the climate crisis? John It’s impossible to earn a billion dollars. Every single billionaire who amasses that much wealth does it through an inhe…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 23, 2022 at 4:24 PM

As billionaires buy elections and rig our laws, they amass even more wealth and power

Why did Joe Manchin flip on supporting a tax and investment plan that makes the rich pay their fair share and finally begins to combat the climate crisis? John, Why did Joe Manchin flip on supporting a tax and investment plan that makes the rich pay their fair share and finally b…
  Maura Quint · [email protected]
July 22, 2022 at 3:08 PM

RE: Joe Manchin killed the tax plan on the rich and corporations. Here’s what we can still do:

Did you know that each year the richest 1% evades $163 billion in taxes? Tell the U.S. Senate: “Fully fund the IRS to crack down on wealthy and corporate tax cheats.” TAKE ACTION John, Thanks to loopholes written into our tax code, often the wealthy and larg…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 21, 2022 at 5:20 PM

Joe Manchin killed the tax plan on the rich and corporations. Here’s what we can still do:

Did you know that each year the richest 1% evades $163 billion in taxes? John, Last week Joe Manchin killed President Biden’s slimmed down $1 trillion tax and investment plan―which would have been paid for mostly by making the wealthy and corporations pay a fairer share of taxes.…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
July 20, 2022 at 4:47 PM

RE: Call your Senators: Tell them Congress should NOT be protecting tax breaks and special loopholes for billionaires and CEOs

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. John, The billionaires and special interests may have won this round in the Senate, as Senator Joe Manchin rejects a tax …
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 19, 2022 at 5:10 PM

Call your Senators: Tell them Congress should NOT be protecting tax breaks and special loopholes for billionaires and CEOs

Please call your U.S. senators today! 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…
  Maura Quint · [email protected]
July 17, 2022 at 7:11 PM

RE: Fight for a democracy that’s of the people and by the people, not of the billionaires, by the billionaires.

We’re demanding they pay taxes each year, just like you and I. John, Billionaires are spending record sums of money buying elections. In Georgia, where Herschel Walker is facing off against incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock, 11 billionaires have donated to super PACs seeking to …
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 16, 2022 at 4:25 PM

“These 6 Billionaires Are Helping Bankroll Herschel Walker’s Run For The Senate”

We’re demanding they pay taxes each year, just like you and I. John, Billionaires are throwing their weight around in some of the most pivotal U.S. Senate races of 2022, hoping to elect candidates who are hostile to democracy, abortion rights and Social Security―and very much ant…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 15, 2022 at 10:38 PM

What we are losing because of Joe Manchin’s inexplicable reversal:

It would be hard to find a hard-working resident of West Virginia or any state who is opposed to folks making over $10 million paying a little more in taxes. John, For the last year, Sen. Manchin has consistently said one of his top three priorities in negotiations over a major i…
  Maura Quint · [email protected]
July 14, 2022 at 5:53 PM

Democracy has a billionaire problem. The solution: Tell Congress to tax billionaire wealth!

We must act to rein in the undue influence of billionaire money in our elections. John, Billionaires saw their wealth grow by $2 trillion during the first two years of the pandemic. What are they doing with that new-found wealth? In the 2020 election, they spent a whopping $1.2 …
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 13, 2022 at 9:48 PM

Billionaire spending in our elections was 40 times more in 2020 than one decade earlier

Join Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund and our allies in demanding Congress tax the wealth of billionaires and limit their undue influence on our democracy. John, Democracy has a billionaire problem. According to a new report from Americans for Tax Fairness, the nation’s ro…
  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]
July 11, 2022 at 3:29 PM

RE: JULY 14: Join us to Tax the Ultra-Rich NOW!

It’s no secret that the wealthiest people in our country are getting richer and richer while working families struggle to make ends meet. John, The growing wealth among a tiny number of individuals is completely reshaping our country. The ultra-rich are funding threats to our dem…
  Maura Quint · [email protected]
July 9, 2022 at 4:44 PM

RE: [take action] Don’t let the Senate eliminate the Millionaires Surcharge

We really need your help today to tell the U.S. Senate to stay strong. John, We’re on the verge of passing one of the most consequential tax and investment plans in our lifetime, which would begin to make the rich and corporations start paying their fair share. But one aspect of …
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 8, 2022 at 8:09 PM

[take action] Don’t let the Senate eliminate the Millionaires Surcharge

We really need your help today to tell the U.S. Senate to stay strong. John, The U.S. Senate is in the final stages of crafting a $1 trillion or more tax and investment package, a version of which has already passed the House of Representatives. A tax reform we have led the charg…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 7, 2022 at 7:11 PM

JULY 14: Join us to Tax the Ultra-Rich NOW!

It’s no secret that the wealthiest people in our country are getting richer and richer while working families struggle to make ends meet. John, It’s no secret that the wealthiest people in our country are getting richer and richer while working families struggle to make ends meet…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 7, 2022 at 2:22 PM

RE: The Millionaires Surcharge could be on the chopping block

We have a critical opportunity to start unrigging our tax code. Let’s demand the Senate act! John, According to Business Insider, “One proposal to tax multimillionaires has fallen out of the spending bill.”[1] The Millionaires Surcharge, which is supported by 73% of voters, incl…
  Maura Quint · [email protected]
July 6, 2022 at 4:42 PM

The Millionaires Surcharge could be on the chopping block

We have a critical opportunity to start unrigging our tax code. Let’s demand the Senate act! John, One of the most critical aspects of President Biden’s revenue and investment plan, which passed the House of Representatives last November, is that it finally makes the ultra-wealth…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
July 4, 2022 at 2:52 PM

RE: It’s not patriotic to dodge taxes, rig our economy, and attack our rights.

Together, we’re fighting for an America that includes all of us. John, This 4th of July, guess who’s not doing their patriotic duty? Millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy corporations that don’t pay their fair share in taxes. Did you know that each year the richest 1% evades $…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
July 3, 2022 at 4:21 PM

The unpatriotic 1%

Together, we’re fighting for an America that includes all of us. John, When billionaires and corporations buy elections, they’re rigging our tax system and our economy for economic gain. But that’s not all. They’re also enacting a right-wing agenda that takes away our rights on …
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
July 1, 2022 at 3:01 PM

RE: Scrap the cap! Sign on to the Sanders, Warren, DeFazio plan to expand Social Security >>

This new plan to expand Social Security would increase benefits by $200 per month. Tell Congress: “Pass the Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren plan to expand Social Security and save our earned benefits from Republicans.” ADD YOUR NAME John, Senators Bernie…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
June 30, 2022 at 6:51 PM

Scrap the cap! Sign on to the Sanders, Warren, DeFazio plan to expand Social Security >>

This new plan to expand Social Security would increase benefits by $200 per month. John, If millionaires, billionaires, and upper-income households paid into Social Security on a larger share of their income―like everyone else does who makes under $147,000―we could increase Socia…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
June 29, 2022 at 8:41 PM

Here’s what you can do right now to fight back against the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision

In the wake of this devastating Supreme Court ruling, abortion funds across the country need our support to help people seeking abortion services. John, Last week, the far-right Supreme Court, unrestrained by precedent, reversed a basic fundamental freedom strongly supported by t…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
June 27, 2022 at 3:33 PM

RE: We’re fighting to hold billionaires accountable for their tax dodging and for funding Trump’s “Big Lie”

Wall Street billionaire Jeffrey Yass is using his fortune to bankroll right-wing election deniers who also perpetuate our rigged tax system. John, Wall Street billionaire Jeffrey Yass is using his fortune to bankroll right-wing election deniers who also perpetuate our rigged tax …
  Maura Quint · [email protected]
June 26, 2022 at 4:22 PM

We’re fighting to hold billionaires accountable for their tax dodging and for funding Trump’s “Big Lie”

Wall Street billionaire Jeffrey Yass is using his fortune to bankroll right-wing election deniers who also perpetuate our rigged tax system. John, In a new investigative report, ProPublica details how Wall Street billionaire Jeffrey Yass is buying politicians to further our rigge…
  Sarah Christopherson · [email protected]
June 23, 2022 at 3:21 PM

RE: [take action] Demand tax dodging Fortune 500 corporations stop funding insurrectionists

UPS has contributed $336,000 to congressional candidates who deny the validity of the 2020 presidential election. Tell Tax Dodging Corporations: “Corporations cannot honestly claim to support democracy at the same time as they reward the very lawmakers who tried to finish wha…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
June 22, 2022 at 10:12 PM

[take action] Demand tax dodging Fortune 500 corporations stop funding insurrectionists

UPS has contributed $336,000 to congressional candidates who deny the validity of the 2020 presidential election. John, Since the January 6th insurrection, Fortune 500 corporations have continued to fund the 147 Republican members of Congress who voted NOT to certify Joe Biden as…
  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]
June 20, 2022 at 4:09 PM

RE: “the Koch brothers of Wisconsin”

It’s up to us to shine a spotlight on the policies Senator Ron Johnson has championed while in office and how they leave everyday working people behind. John, Two billionaire families―Dick and Liz Uihlein and Diane Hendricks―donated at least $20 million to groups backing the reel…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
June 19, 2022 at 3:56 PM

157 years ago today, the last slaves were freed in Texas

Whether it be our racist justice system, police violence, corruption in our political process, discrimination in our communities, or racism in our tax code, we must fight against all of it. John, Today is Juneteenth, commemorating and celebrating 157 years since some of the last r…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
June 18, 2022 at 2:26 PM

LIVESTREAM: The Moral March on Washington and to the Polls

John, Today, Saturday, June 18th, Americans for Tax Fairness is joining with allies from across the country for the Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. The march begins at 9:30am ET. Click here to watch the livestream of the event! (Or go to Pennsylvania Ave and 3rd St NW…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
June 17, 2022 at 5:36 PM

“the Koch brothers of Wisconsin”

It’s up to us to shine a spotlight on the policies Senator Ron Johnson has championed while in office and how they leave everyday working people behind. John, Before Donald Trump was able to pass his “big, beautiful tax cut” in 2017 he needed every single Republican Senator on bo…
  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]
June 16, 2022 at 5:24 PM

VIDEO -- billionaires buying elections: “I don't understand how you have everything, and yet you are intent on taking more from people who literally almost have nothing.”

Already this election cycle, Jeffrey Yass has spent at least $18 million in donations to candidates and super PACS. John, Billionaires are buying elections. And with that money and power, they’re taking away critical resources, including funding for public education, from million…
  Frank Clemente · [email protected]
June 15, 2022 at 3:31 PM

RE: It’s time that these right-wing billionaire donors are held accountable:

They knew full well that in supporting Trump, they were making a deal with the devil. John, Billionaires are not only funding right-wing congressional candidates. They continue to fuel Trump’s Big Lie, which is destabilizing our democracy and undermining our ability to unrig our …
  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]
June 14, 2022 at 6:06 PM

It’s time that these right-wing billionaire donors are held accountable:

They knew full well that in supporting Trump, they were making a deal with the devil. John, Between 2016 and 2020, 134 billionaires donated $236 million to Donald Trump and his super PACs, according to Americans for Tax Fairness research.[1] Many of these same billionaires are su…