Corporations are supposed to pay a 21% tax rate. But over the last three years, Amazon wriggled its way into so many exceptions that they only paid 4.3% of their $45 billion in profits. My Real Corporate Profits Tax Act would bypass those loopholes and make them pay a fair share.
The Israeli military forces Palestinian families to demolish their own homes. If they don’t, the military demolishes them, and the families face exorbitant fines.
We demand our government stop funding this traumatic, apartheid system. #SaveSilwan
Fund education.
Fund health care.
Fund housing.
Fund after-school programs.
Fund jobs programs.
Fund nutrition programs.
Fund accessible communities.
Fund renewable energy and green spaces.
Fund community organizations.
These will bring us closer to community safety.
Why do we somehow have endless money to give tax breaks to the rich and large corporations, but when we start talking about child care and pre-K education for working class families, somehow we can't afford it? Totally absurd.
Last time I read the Constitution, it's majority rule in both chambers of Congress. And it’s only the president of the United States who gets a veto—not the minority leader of the United States Senate. #EndTheFilibuster
I came within about an inch of not being able to finish my education because I couldn’t find child care. I’m staying in the fight for universal child care because if we don’t get this done, millions of parents will keep getting knocked off track.
It’s time for President Biden to #CancelStudentDebt. People need this. Our country needs this. And one of the best ways to create a 21st-century economy is by investing in people who have invested in their own education.
Dear Lord: let this effort to suppress the voices of our black and brown sisters and brothers animate them to walk on glass if need be, to send a message; hatred, bigotry, white supremacy, not today. Not ever.