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Join Tax Day Actions: Demand Corporations and Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share

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Are you tired of the 1 percent and big corporations gaming the tax system and loopholing their way to a tax bite that’s lower than what most of us honest working people pay? Take action on Tax Day tomorrow by joining working families and community, faith and other activists to demand that the 1% and corporations pay their fair share. 

Click here to find a Tax Day action near you.

Tax fairness actions include a corporate tax-dodger ball game in St. Louis and a “Three Stooges Tax Day Rally” in Florida with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) standing in for Larry, Moe and Curly. 

In Charleston, W.Va., tax fairness activists will be joined by a 12-foot tall inflatable “Fat Cat” playing the dual role of corporate CEOs and their crony lawmakers who are pushing for even bigger tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations.   

For example, an analysis of the Republican/Romney/Ryan budget by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center finds that people earning more than $1 million a year would on average receive $265,000 each in new tax cuts, on top of the $129,000 they would receive from the budget’s extension of President George W. Bush’s tax cuts.

That same Republican budget not only cuts corporate taxes, but also gives tax breaks to U.S. corporations that move jobs offshore. 

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says, “While hardworking Americans pay their share so that we can support our troops, keep our communities safe and build the roads we use every day, the super-wealthy are taking advantage of excessive tax loopholes.”

We need the 1% to pitch in their fair share and elected officials must pass policies that create economic fairness for us all. 

Click here and join us tomorrow.

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