A Tax Day Like No Other
Presented by our friends and colleagues at Massachusetts Peace Action
As we move into the post-pandemic, Biden era, it’s time to change what we buy with our tax dollars.
The pandemic and the resulting economic crisis illuminated glaring inequalities and the human costs of budget priorities that enrich the wealthy and left people unable to protect their health, hungry and homeless, while the military-industrial complex drowns in super-profits and paves the way for new and dangerous Cold Wars. Trillions have been spent chasing demons abroad and “bad hombres” at our borders, but Covid-19 brings us to our knees.
The Biden Rescue Plan, with the child tax credit, unemployment, child and family care provisions, is bringing relief and hope to millions of Americans. But now the work begins to impact Congress debates over the national budget paid for by our taxes.
Mass Peace Action’s Call:
Make the Rescue Plan’s safety net provisions permanent
Fund housing, healthcare for all, and education – forgive college loans
Pass the job-creating, GREEN infrastructure bill
Tax the 1% and big corporations; create a wealth tax so everyone pays their fair share
Repeal the Trump $2 trillion tax cuts
Cut the Pentagon’s gargantuan budget to pay for what we need
Defund new nuclear weapons, cut the F-35 & B-1 Bomber
Featuring:
Lindsay Koshgarian, program director, National Priorities Project
Deborah Weinstein, executive director, Coalition on Human Needs
Shailly Gupta Barnes, program director, Kairos Center; co-author of the Moral Budget of the Poor People's Campaign
Alan Palm, Director of 350 Mass Organizing, Better Future Project
Organized by: Massachusetts Peace Action, Massachusetts Alliance of HUD Tenants, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, New England War Tax Resistance, American Friends Service Committee - Northeast Region, Maine Peace Action, Peace Action New York State