| Dear Katy, Yesterday, cruel and craven Republicans in the House voted in favor of a huge giveaway to corporations and the wealthiest Americans. Now the fight turns to the Senate, where the bill would sneakily repeal part of the Affordable Care Act.1 Senate Republicans may vote on this Trump-Tax-Scam-turned-Trumpcare bill as early as this week.2 The Trump Tax Scam would make deep cuts to the social safety net and raise taxes on middle- and lower-income families – all while giving Trump and his wealthy friends trillions in handouts.3,4 As we showed when we stopped Trumpcare, our collective action makes a difference, and now that the Trump Tax Scam is Trumpcare all over again, we must ramp up the pressure on Sen. Gardner to stop this dumpster fire of a bill in its tracks. Call Sen. Gardner: No tax handouts for the wealthy and big corporations. Click here to get started with your calls. Republicans are desperate to deliver a win to their corporate donors, and the Trump Tax Scam is a massive handout to corporations and the wealthiest Americans. They are trying to pull the wool over their constituents' eyes with the false promise of tax cuts for working Americans, but in reality, the Trump Tax Scam would be devastating.5 The Trump Tax Scam would: - Repeal the deduction for state and local taxes, used by the majority of middle class taxpayers, and strain budgets for local services 6
- Allow massive amounts of wealth to accumulate untaxed by raising the cap and then eliminating the estate tax – a tax paid only by the ultra-wealthy.7
- Slash the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to just 20 percent – less than what most workers would pay.8
- Allow tax dodgers to get away with refusing to pay their fair share by eliminating the alternative minimum tax, which has been a safeguard against the ultra-wealthy like Donald Trump paying virtually nothing in taxes.9
- Sneakily undermine health care by repealing the individual mandate.10
- Increase the burden of health care costs by eliminating the deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses.11
- Strike an intentional blow to abortion rights and lay the groundwork for banning abortion outright by enshrining the language "unborn child" into the federal tax code.12
- Make higher education even more unaffordable by eliminating the deduction for student loan interest and ending exemptions for graduate students paid for research work or teaching while in school.13
- Reduce incentives for consumers to purchase clean energy vehicles.14
- Jeopardize the fragile natural environment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by opening it up to drilling in order to pay for corporate tax handouts.15
Republicans need to know that going along with Trump's greedy and cruel tax plan will be devastating for everyone but the 1%. CREDO activists made more than 10,000 calls to key House Republicans, and two of them voted the right way.16 We need just three Republicans to stand up to Trump in the Senate – and Sen. Gardner could be the deciding vote. Will you call now to tell him we are watching and that it is unacceptable for them to do anything less than fully resist Trump's tax scam? Call key Sen. Gardner: No tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. Click the link below to get started with your calls. https://act.credoaction.com/call/trump-taxes-calls-2017/?t=7&akid=26176%2E12967895%2EW6Ryos Thank you for speaking out, Kaili Lambe, Director of Organizing
CREDO Action from Working Assets Click below for a sample script and the number to call: References: - Heather Long, "The House is voting on its tax bill Thursday. Here's what is in it." The Washington Post, Nov. 16, 2017.
- Kathryn Watson, "Senate GOP tax proposal unveiled," CBS News, Nov. 9, 2017.
- Alan Rappaport, "Republicans May Use Cuts in Entitlement Programs to Reduce Deficit," The New York Times, Nov. 15, 2017.
- Binyamin Appelbaum, "Trump Tax Plan Benefits Wealthy, Including Trump," The New York Times, Sept. 27, 2017.
- Josh Barro, "Here's how the Trump tax plan would raise taxes on many middle-income families," Business Insider, Sept. 28, 2017.
- Michael Leachman, "House Tax Bill's Changes to State and Local Tax Deductions Would Hurt States," The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov 2. 2017.
- Long, "The House is voting on its tax bill Thursday. Here's what is in it."
- Americans for Tax Fairness, "13 Terrible Things About the House Republican Tax Plan," Nov. 2 2017.
- Appelbaum, "Republicans May Use Cuts in Entitlement Programs to Reduce Deficit."
- Jennifer Haberkorn, Seung Min Kim and Bernie Becker, "Senate GOP adding Obamacare mandate repeal to tax bill, senators say," POLITICO, Nov. 14, 2017.
- Americans for Tax Fairness, "13 Terrible Things About the House Republican Tax Plan."
- Charles P. Pierce, "This Tax Bill Isn't Just Bad Economics. It's Got a Backdoor Anti-Abortion Measure, Too," Esquire, Nov. 3, 2017.
- Long, "The House is voting on its tax bill Thursday. Here's what is in it."
- Ibid.
- Dino Grandoni, "The Energy 202: ANWR drilling is one step closer to happening," The Washington Post, Nov. 16, 2017.
- K.K. Rebecca Lai, Wilson Andrews and Alicia Parlapiano, "How Every Member Voted on the House Tax Bill," The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2017.
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