"If corporate income tax collection had kept up with 1960's levels, companies would be paying $620 billion more in taxes. In my latest I ask: what did we get in return? Not wages, not benefits, but record profits and a growing public disgust with companies."
Read more: https://bit.ly/3PifT78
In a Pokemon Pokotopia-inspired graphic, words say "starbucks is the biggest violator of labor law in modern history"
“This administration eliminated critical student loan programs during a horrible college affordability crisis…threats to the Pell Grant program will make it even harder for families to pay for college," Satra Taylor, a doctoral student in Maryland, said at our pre- #SOTU forum.
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
Because of the Big Ugly Bill, Amazon's tax bill fell by 87% even though its profits rose by 45%.
Trump and the GOP are shoveling more money towards the richest people and richest corporations in America at the same time so many people will be losing health care.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4blliTA
They robbed us blind and told us that our neighbors were the enemy. All that culture war garbage was a diversion to distract us from the largest wealth transfer in history.
#TaxBillionaires
"Instead of blaming undocumented kids for the high cost of college, how about blaming the defense contractors? How about blaming the billionaires who aren’t paying their taxes? How about blaming an economic system that has not invested in the health and education of our country?" - Rep. Ro Khanna
New from me: Most of the world wants to hold the Epstein Class accountable for their crimes. Here in America, the Trump Regime still serves them and their interests. open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
“This is Senator Sanders’ defining vision for our age,” Ro Khanna said. “It is the most ambitious and transformative legislation for our times to tackle inequality in the New Gilded Age.”
Read more here: bit.ly/4rJt7bn
#TaxBillionaires
"Big corporations are planning to dump millions of dollars into the 2026 elections. As long as we allow corporate money to flood our political system, Washington will continue to fail working families. I refuse to take corporate PAC money and I’m working to ban it completely." - Senator Mark Kelly
Yes, we need a wealth tax on billionaires.
#TaxBillionaires
Last year, surveillance giant Palantir paid $0 in federal income tax despite making $1.5 billion, partly due to new tax cuts in Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill. They cut Medicaid and SNAP to pay for this. This monstrosity must be reversed.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3MwQp5i
The SAVE Act could keep millions of people from being able to vote – and would shut countless eligible voters out of our democracy.
#StopTheSaveAct
Trump is not trying to make your life easier or more affordable. He's listening to the giant tax prep companies and their millions, not you.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/46upfml
#TaxJustice
Kristen Crowell was on Chew's Views to discuss her efforts to humanize the impacts of the Big Ugly Bill and to counter Trump's #SOTU lies by amplifying the voices of real Americans who have been hurt by this administration's cruel policy choices.
Listen here: bit.ly/4aEYmyx
#TaxJustice
“Last night’s address taxed peoples’ tolerance for utter nonsense, as the president relied on inflammatory and grandiose language to distract from the truth," said Kristen Crowell.
Read more here: bit.ly/4rfQs3L
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Trump said costs are going down in the #SOTU, which was just another lie 👇
"Whose daily costs have gone up in the last year?”
Kristen Crowell asked the assembled guests and audience members at last night’s “State(s) of the Union” town hall in Washington.
Everyone’s hand shot up. “100 percent.”
“A show of hands: whose daily costs have gone up in the last year?” Families Over Billionaires Executive Director Kristen Crowell asked the assembled guests and audience members at last night’s “State(s) of the Union” town hall in Washington.
Everyone’s hand shot up.
“100 percent.”
#SOTU
Congratulations, NewYork-Presbyterian nurses! They overwhelmingly ratified a new contract and will return to work next week!
Satra Taylor, a doctoral student in MD, says that slashing the Pell Grants that enabled her and many more people like her to go to college will set young people back even further.
“This administration eliminated critical student loan programs during a horrible college affordability crisis."
#SOTU
Wintana Melekin from MN said people pulled together to help those targeted by brutal ICE actions. “I should never have to be creating an underground network to get people groceries. I should never have to be advocating for Americans to get due process...Minnesotans are standing strong.”
#SOTU
Around 90% of the families Armett Newman works with rely on federal child care subsidies to afford tuition, and she says that Trump's cuts to child care will force many of those parents — including nurses, teachers, and other essential workers — to stop working and pull their children out.
#SOTU
Dr. Aisha Harris, a family physician in Flint, Michigan, warned all of us about the lies we are about to hear in the #SOTU tonight:
"America is sick. Patients are not better off. Families are not better off, and that's the real state of our union."
WATCH: The "State(s) of the Union: For the People, Not Billionaires" is getting underway soon!
You can watch the livestream on Youtube here:
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#SOTU
Tuesday is the SOTU. Trump's scripted speech will tell one story. The reality Americans are living will tell another.
Join us tonight for "State(s) of the Union: For the People, Not Billionaires."
RSVP here:
bit.ly/4avZova
Or watch live on Youtube here:
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The Trump EPA has fully abandoned its duty to protect the American people from greenhouse gas pollution and climate change. The only winners from this are Trump’s fossil fuel billionaire megadonors.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/4tQVu92
#TaxBillionaires
"A small GOP rebellion is unleashing a flood of House votes on Trump’s tariff policies in the coming weeks — handing Democrats a powerful tool to hammer Republicans on affordability issues ahead of the November midterms."
Tuesday is the State of the Union. Trump's scripted speech will tell one story. The reality Americans are living will tell another.
Join us the day before #SOTU, Mon. Feb. 23, 6:30pm ET, for "State(s) of the Union: For the People, Not Billionaires" to hear stories from families across the country.
Right-wingers will fear-monger all day long about these state "Millionaires Tax" ballot measures, but the numbers show they yield very positive results.
#TaxJustice
