David Kass · [email protected]

June 15, 2024 at 6:13 PM

Tell Congress: Let this egregious tax loophole expire

Permanently extending the pass-through loophole would cost over $700 billion in lost revenue. John, With portions of the Trump-GOP tax scam set to expire next year, and Donald Trump promising his billionaire and corporate donors that he’ll keep their taxes low, we’re fighting to …

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  John Foti · [email protected]

June 14, 2024 at 7:22 PM

RE: House Republicans’ hearing on the “solvency” of Social Security

Help counter the right-wing narrative about Social Security. John, Republicans and their Wall Street paymasters like to claim that Social Security is going broke. They even held a hearing in the House Budget Committee yesterday on the “solvency” of Social Security and its “impact…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

June 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM

House Republicans’ hearing on the “solvency” of Social Security

Help counter the right-wing narrative about Social Security. John, If nothing is done to bolster Social Security’s finances, Social Security benefits will see a 17% cut 11 years from now. So, what is the Republican plan to strengthen Social Security? Cuts. The solution to cuts d…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

June 12, 2024 at 9:20 PM

RE: Cuts to the IRS = Handouts to wealthy tax cheats

This Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee will vote on the Republican proposal that attacks IRS funding and Direct File. John, As soon as House Republicans announced their plans to cut billions of dollars from IRS tax enforcement and bar the agency from fully implementing…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

June 11, 2024 at 7:42 PM

Cuts to the IRS = Handouts to wealthy tax cheats

This Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee will vote on the Republican proposal that attacks IRS funding and Direct File. John, When the IRS launched its first-ever free online tax filing system this year, the hope was that its success would spur an expansion to millions m…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

June 9, 2024 at 5:21 PM

RE: [take action] Protect the IRS’s new “Direct File” tax filing program from GOP attacks

Just as the IRS has announced that it will be expanding Direct File to all 50 states next tax filing season, House Republicans are seeking to defund the IRS. John, The IRS’s new “Direct File” pilot program, which is allowing taxpayers to file taxes online for free, was a huge suc…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

June 7, 2024 at 5:39 PM

[take action] Protect the IRS’s new “Direct File” tax filing program from GOP attacks

Just as the IRS has announced that it will be expanding Direct File to all 50 states next tax filing season, House Republicans are seeking to defund the IRS. John, When we fought for and won historic investments in the IRS, it quickly resulted in better customer service for every…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

June 6, 2024 at 2:32 PM

RE: [take action] Demand states reject trickle-down economics and instead tax the rich!

From Florida to North Carolina to Ohio, states are seeing the negative impact of undertaxing the rich and corporations. John, From Florida to North Carolina to Ohio, states are seeing the negative impact of undertaxing the rich and corporations. From funding shortfalls to inadequ…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

June 5, 2024 at 5:09 PM

[take action] Demand states reject trickle-down economics and instead tax the rich!

From Florida to North Carolina to Ohio, states are seeing the negative impact of undertaxing the rich and corporations. John, State tax policy can have just as much impact on working families—for good or ill—as federal tax policy. In North Carolina, tax cuts on the wealthy and c…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

June 2, 2024 at 8:21 PM

RE: House Majority Leader’s first 100 day plan: Cut taxes for the rich and corporations

The CBO projects that an extension of the tax scam would cost $4.6 trillion over the next decade. John, Republicans aren’t hiding their plans if they take control of the White House and Congress later this year: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) has told lawmakers tha…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

June 1, 2024 at 9:46 PM

House Majority Leader’s first 100 day plan: Cut taxes for the rich and corporations

The CBO projects that an extension of the tax scam would cost $4.6 trillion over the next decade. John, This presidential election is about many things. Defending democracy. Protecting the rights of marginalized communities and working people. And, according to House Majority Lea…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

May 31, 2024 at 3:24 PM

RE: Let’s stop handing $17 billion in tax subsidies each year to the fossil fuel industry

Bernie Sanders: “No, working families should not be forced to pad the profits of an industry that is destroying our planet.” John, Fossil fuel corporations are spending millions of dollars in lobbying and advertisements to convince lawmakers and the American public that the scien…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 30, 2024 at 7:09 PM

Let’s stop handing $17 billion in tax subsidies each year to the fossil fuel industry

Bernie Sanders: “No, working families should not be forced to pad the profits of an industry that is destroying our planet.” John, For decades, the fossil fuel industry has misled the American people and the world about the role oil, coal, and gas have played in creating the clim…

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  John Foti · [email protected]

May 24, 2024 at 4:05 PM

RE: Taxing the ultra-wealthy is both popular and effective

Billionaires are using their wealth and influence to elect candidates who will push their ideology of fewer taxes on the rich and fewer rights for everyone else. John, Raising taxes on the rich is popular across party lines. According to a poll from Data for Progress, 68% of vote…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 23, 2024 at 10:17 PM

Taxing the ultra-wealthy is both popular and effective

Billionaires are using their wealth and influence to elect candidates who will push their ideology of fewer taxes on the rich and fewer rights for everyone else. John, In 2022, Massachusetts voted to implement a 4% “millionaires tax” and it’s doing far better than anyone expect…

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  John Foti · [email protected]

May 22, 2024 at 4:34 PM

RE: Billionaires have already spent more than $600 million this election. But the real number is much higher.

Dark money groups can raise unlimited sums and don’t need to disclose their donors. John, According to Americans for Tax Fairness reporting, billionaires spent more than $1 billion in the 2022 midterm election and have already spent more than $600 million in this year’s president…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 21, 2024 at 10:32 PM

Billionaires have already spent more than $600 million this election. But the real number is much higher.

Dark money groups can raise unlimited sums and don’t need to disclose their donors. John, Our campaign finance system is broken, allowing dark money groups to spend unlimited sums of money to influence our elections without reporting the corporate or billionaire donors behind thi…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

May 19, 2024 at 6:35 PM

RE: Demand Congress act to place constraints on billionaire wealth and power

We’re out with our latest report on billionaires buying elections―and our first of the 2024 election. John, Already in the 2024 election, just 50 billionaire families have spent more than $600 million in an attempt to rig our democracy in their favor. In our latest report titled…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 18, 2024 at 5:44 PM

Demand Congress act to place constraints on billionaire wealth and power

We’re out with our latest report on billionaires buying elections―and our first of the 2024 election. John, We’re out with our latest report on billionaires buying elections―and our first of the 2024 election. New Americans for Tax Fairness reporting shows that 50 billionaire fa…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

May 17, 2024 at 3:23 PM

RE: New ATF Report: Billionaires influencing the 2024 election

Our advocacy and reporting are critical to holding millionaires and billionaires accountable. John, Right now, we’re rallying our allies across the country in support of the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax―a bill introduced in Congress that would ensure that every household worth …

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 16, 2024 at 10:48 PM

New ATF Report: Billionaires influencing the 2024 election

Our advocacy and reporting are critical to holding millionaires and billionaires accountable. John, Through our advocacy and reporting, we’re combating billionaire greed and their influence on our democracy. This week, we released our latest report, “The Billionaire Family Busine…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

May 15, 2024 at 5:51 PM

RE: [take action] Demand Congress let tax cuts for the rich and big corporations expire

Instead of handing more and more wealth to the richest 1%, let’s raise taxes on those at the top and invest those resources in critical programs for working people, our communities, and our future. John, The Trump-GOP tax scam was an expensive failure, mostly funneling badly need…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 14, 2024 at 10:33 PM

[take action] Demand Congress let tax cuts for the rich and big corporations expire

Instead of handing more and more wealth to the richest 1%, let’s raise taxes on those at the top and invest those resources in critical programs for working people, our communities, and our future. John, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are running on a promise to exten…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 12, 2024 at 2:31 PM

RE: Apple’s $110B stock buyback scheme is too much!

Stock buybacks boost the portfolios of CEOs and the top 1%, while harming workers and consumers. The Stock Buyback Accountability Act will help counter this trend. John, In the last two years alone, 10 mega-corporations including Google, Meta (formerly Facebook), T-Mobile, and Ra…

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  Robert Reich via Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund · [email protected]

May 11, 2024 at 5:33 PM

Apple’s $110B stock buyback scheme is too much!

Stock buybacks boost the portfolios of CEOs and the top 1%, while harming workers and consumers. The Stock Buyback Accountability Act will help counter this trend. John, please see this important call to action from Robert Reich below and then join the campaign by taking action to…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

May 8, 2024 at 4:33 PM

RE: Tell Congress to pass Bernie Sanders’s Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act

We need a tax code that puts working people first, not major corporations. John, Between 1993 and 2017, the top corporate tax rate was 35% and corporations thrived, regularly racking up record profits. Then came the Trump-GOP tax scam, which slashed the corporate tax rate nearly …

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 7, 2024 at 9:14 PM

Tell Congress to pass Bernie Sanders’s Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act

We need a tax code that puts working people first, not major corporations. John, We recently told you about a new bill in Congress, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Jan Schakowsky: the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act.[1] Nearly 20,000 people have added…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

May 5, 2024 at 10:22 PM

RE: Republicans are trying to undo our progress of unrigging our economy

John, When the wealthy pay their fair share, we can lower costs on everything from healthcare to housing to nutrition. But, consistently, when Republicans cut taxes for the rich and corporations, and starve the federal government of critical revenue, they turn around and demand c…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 4, 2024 at 5:48 PM

Fight back against GOP efforts to further cut taxes for the rich and corporations

John, Parts of the Trump-GOP tax scam will expire next year―and they mostly benefit the rich and corporations. And, while roughly 80% of voters support raising taxes on the wealthy and big corporations (including two-thirds of Republicans), Donald Trump and congressional Republi…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

May 3, 2024 at 5:52 PM

RE: ADD YOUR NAME: Tell Congress to close this loophole that allows Wall Street to dodge $6.5 billion in taxes

Wall Street hedge fund managers shouldn't be allowed to pay a lower tax rate than working families. John, Closing one loophole that allows Wall Street hedge-fund managers to pay a lower tax rate than working families would raise $6.5 billion in new tax revenue. That’s money that …

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

May 2, 2024 at 2:35 PM

RE: [take action] Hold Tesla and Elon Musk accountable to its workers

Americans for Tax Fairness research shows that between 2018 and 2022, Tesla paid its top 5 executives $2.5 billion while paying $0 in federal income taxes. John, Tesla is laying off thousands of workers while its Board of Directors is asking shareholders to approve a $56 billion …

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  David Kass · [email protected]

May 1, 2024 at 10:37 PM

[take action] Hold Tesla and Elon Musk accountable to its workers

Americans for Tax Fairness research shows that between 2018 and 2022, Tesla paid its top 5 executives $2.5 billion while paying $0 in federal income taxes. John, Tesla is the only major American automaker whose workers are not represented by a union. So it was easy for the compan…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 30, 2024 at 10:02 PM

ADD YOUR NAME: Tell Congress to close this loophole that allows Wall Street to dodge $6.5 billion in taxes

Wall Street hedge fund managers shouldn't be allowed to pay a lower tax rate than working families. John, Did you know that Wall Street hedge-fund managers can pay roughly half the tax rate than those earning traditional wages pay? This is because of something called the “carried…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

April 28, 2024 at 5:24 PM

RE: Just in the last week, we’ve taken tens of thousands of actions to hold the rich and corporations accountable

For generations, Republicans and their Wall Street benefactors have tried to sell us on the fantasy of “trickle-down economics”. John, Already, more than 107,000 people have signed our petition demanding Congress side with working people, not billionaires and Big Business. And, …

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 27, 2024 at 7:23 PM

Just in the last week, we’ve taken tens of thousands of actions to hold the rich and corporations accountable

For generations, Republicans and their Wall Street benefactors have tried to sell us on the fantasy of “trickle-down economics”. John, During the first two years of the pandemic, from July 2020 to July 2022, inflation rose by 14% while corporate profits rose by an astounding 74%.…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

April 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM

RE: [take action] Tell Congress to pass the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act

Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky have introduced the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act. John, Corporations are using loopholes and tax breaks to avoid paying their fair share in taxes, from stashing profits in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands …

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 24, 2024 at 2:01 PM

Tell Congress: End tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas

Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky have introduced the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act. John, In 2018, the first year of the Trump-GOP tax scam, 34% of large profitable corporations paid $0 in federal income taxes.[1] Thankfully, we’ve begun to make pro…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 23, 2024 at 3:42 PM

Support Elizabeth Warren’s new bill to hold greedy corporations accountable

Combat corporate greed by sending a message to your senators and representative today. John, Last year, we wrote to you about a new report from Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) on “greedflation”―the difference between inflation and what businesses are charging consumers. According to Senato…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM

In this election year, our reporting is critical to unrigging our tax code

Together, we’re fighting for a tax system that puts working people first. John, If Republicans win back the White House and control both bodies of Congress, their top legislative priority in 2025 will be to renew soon-to-expire provisions in the Trump-GOP tax scam that mostly ben…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 19, 2024 at 5:57 PM

Tell Congress: Strengthen Social Security; make the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes

Add your name now to tell Congress: Protect and expand Social Security by making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes! John, Each year, 94% of U.S. workers pay into Social Security on all of their income.[1] But millionaires stop paying by the end of February. And billionair…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

April 17, 2024 at 6:52 PM

[take action] Demand Congress side with working people, not billionaires and large profitable corporations

We’re rallying national allies to keep the pressure on Congress to act. John, Monday was Tax Day and guess who didn’t pay their fair share in taxes? Billionaires and ultra-millionaires who can go years, if not indefinitely, without paying income taxes on their massive wealth gain…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 15, 2024 at 10:58 PM

New report highlights how we can address destabilizing levels of income and wealth inequality

Together, we’re fighting to narrow inequality and create an economy that works for everyone, not just those on top. John, This Tax Day, Americans for Tax Fairness is out with a new report highlighting how neither the nation’s richest individuals, nor its biggest corporations, are…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

April 14, 2024 at 10:23 PM

RE: New report on destabilizing levels of income and wealth inequality:

New Americans for Tax Fairness reporting shows that America’s 806 billionaires now own 50% more wealth than the bottom half of U.S. society. John, In our latest report on billionaire wealth, Americans for Tax Fairness shows that the 806 American billionaires now own 50% more weal…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 12, 2024 at 8:50 PM

New report on destabilizing levels of income and wealth inequality:

New Americans for Tax Fairness reporting shows that America’s 806 billionaires now own 50% more wealth than the bottom half of U.S. society. John, When Donald Trump thinks the cameras are off, what does he tell his “rich as hell” billionaire donors? “We're gonna give you tax cuts…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

April 11, 2024 at 2:50 PM

RE: Tell Congress: This Tax Day, side with working people, not billionaires and Big Business

Together, we’re fighting to unrig our tax code to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few. John, Trickle-down economics is a fantasy dreamed up by the super-rich to rig our tax code and our economy in favor of millionaires, billionaires, and large profi…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 9, 2024 at 10:13 PM

Tell Congress: This Tax Day, side with working people, not billionaires and Big Business

Together, we’re fighting to unrig our tax code to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few. John, Tax Day is less than a week away, and guess who’s not paying their fair share in taxes? The richest 1% who, according to a new report, now hold $44 trillion…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

April 6, 2024 at 9:33 PM

RE: Tell Congress: Reject regressive tax policies that further enrich the wealthy

With the Speaker’s back against the wall, fighting for his political life, he may be willing to do just about anything to retain his speakership. John, When Congress returns next week, Speaker Mike Johnson will be fighting for his political life. After Marjorie Taylor Greene fil…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 5, 2024 at 8:03 PM

Tell Congress: Reject regressive tax policies that further enrich the wealthy

With the Speaker’s back against the wall, fighting for his political life, he may be willing to do just about anything to retain his speakership. John, As soon as Congress passed a bipartisan budget agreement to avert a government shutdown, the MAGA wing of the Republican Party t…

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  Maura Quint · [email protected]

April 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM

RE: New ATF Research: A record number of billionaires are holding a record amount of wealth

We’re building support for the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax in the House and the Billionaires Income Tax in the Senate. John, Did you see David’s email? According to a new report from CNBC, the wealth of the richest 1% just reached a record $44 trillion.[1] And, at the same tim…

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  David Kass · [email protected]

April 2, 2024 at 11:13 PM

New ATF Research: A record number of billionaires are holding a record amount of wealth

We’re building support for the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax in the House and the Billionaires Income Tax in the Senate. John, New Americans for Tax Fairness research shows that there are now 806 billionaires in America with a combined wealth of nearly $5.8 trillion―that’s a rec…

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