 | | | 1) Tell Eric Cantor: "Don't Hold Emergency Aid Hostage"
Eric Cantor - have you no shame at all?
Throughout our nation's history, a simple rule has applied when it comes to natural disasters: help your fellow Americans, and do what is needed to help them get back on their feet.
Thus, it's frankly appalling that Representative Eric Cantor is threatening to hold disaster relief funds hostage to his partisan pettiness. He is demanding immediate cuts to offset spending, even though it is spending necessitated by a natural disaster of historic proportions -- a hurricane that is hitting his very own district.
Representative Cantor made no such demand for cuts when he was cheerleading huge tax breaks for the wealthy, or subsidies for oil companies. But for some reason, he has chosen to draw his line in the sand now, at a time when tens of millions of Americans are in danger. He is basically telling them to "drop dead."
Enough is enough. Tell Eric Cantor to back off, to cut the dangerous partisan pettiness, and to let this urgently needed spending move forward.
And spread the word. Maybe with enough shaming, and enough of a backlash, Cantor will do the right thing -- or at least, the politically expedient thing.
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2) Tell Harry Reid: Raise Warren Buffett's Taxes
(We announced this action in our last email, and it's taken off like wildfire (over 10,000 supporters!). If you've already supported it, please click over, do so, and spread the word!)
We hear a lot about "shared sacrifice" and belt-tightening out of Washington, but as billionaire investor Warren Buffett noted earlier this month:
"Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me...and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks." As complicated as some want to make it, this issue is very simple. In a time of economic crisis, it's both healthy for our democracy and fundamentally fair to ask the super rich to pay more.
Senator Bernie Sanders has a bill to do this and make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has yet to call a vote on it.
Send a message to Harry Reid: Warren Buffett wants you to raise his taxes. Schedule a vote on the Sanders bill, and force Senators to take a stand. And if the House GOP wants to follow up by going on record in support of not taxing billionaires? Let them!
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