Dear Jim,
Like many working people, you probably pay 20, 25 or even 30 percent of your hard-earned dollars in taxes. Billionaire Warren Buffett paid a lower rate than that, a lower rate than his own secretary. By Buffett’s own admission, that just isn’t fair.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Tammy Baldwin have introduced the “Paying a Fair Share Act” in Congress, requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay at least a 30 percent effective tax rate. The Senate will be voting on it Monday and they need to hear from you.
Yes, I'll let my representatives know that I support tax fairness.
During 2010, the first year of economic recovery, 93 percent of income gains went to the top one percent. Everyone else’s income stalled.
Since the top one percent pay such low tax rates on what may be millions of dollars in investment income, sometimes as little as 15 percent, government has had to close schools, tell seniors to live on less, and put off repairing unsafe bridges.
What does it say about our values as a country that the only thing we can afford anymore is a handful of millionaires and billionaires?
Enough is enough. I want the tax code to be fair again.
The changes to the tax code that let billionaires pay lower rates than secretaries are fairly recent and the majority of Americans oppose them. That’s why we’re working with our friends at DailyKos to say loud and clear that it’s time for Congress to oppose them, too.
Click here to ask your representatives to support the Paying a Fair Share Act.
http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=116
In solidarity,
Mary Kay Henry
President, Service Employees International Union
Like many working people, you probably pay 20, 25 or even 30 percent of your hard-earned dollars in taxes. Billionaire Warren Buffett paid a lower rate than that, a lower rate than his own secretary. By Buffett’s own admission, that just isn’t fair.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Tammy Baldwin have introduced the “Paying a Fair Share Act” in Congress, requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay at least a 30 percent effective tax rate. The Senate will be voting on it Monday and they need to hear from you.
Yes, I'll let my representatives know that I support tax fairness.
During 2010, the first year of economic recovery, 93 percent of income gains went to the top one percent. Everyone else’s income stalled.
Since the top one percent pay such low tax rates on what may be millions of dollars in investment income, sometimes as little as 15 percent, government has had to close schools, tell seniors to live on less, and put off repairing unsafe bridges.
What does it say about our values as a country that the only thing we can afford anymore is a handful of millionaires and billionaires?
Enough is enough. I want the tax code to be fair again.
The changes to the tax code that let billionaires pay lower rates than secretaries are fairly recent and the majority of Americans oppose them. That’s why we’re working with our friends at DailyKos to say loud and clear that it’s time for Congress to oppose them, too.
Click here to ask your representatives to support the Paying a Fair Share Act.
http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=116
In solidarity,
Mary Kay Henry
President, Service Employees International Union
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