Last week, Republicans in the US House voted to advance a budget outline that entails steep cuts to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and other essential programs in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires and large corporations.
Their priorities are clear. And so should ours in Massachusetts.
The federal budget fight isn’t over. But MA needs to ensure that, regardless of what Congressional Republicans do and regardless of Elon Musk’s illegal federal funding freezes, we are not cutting essential services. We need to do more to meet the needs of all, not less.
And we know how to raise such funds. It’s not by giving tax cuts to rich people and large corporations as our Legislature did two years ago. It’s by ensuring that large corporations are paying their fair share.
That’s why we’re supporting Raise Up Mass’s Corporate Fair Share campaign to ensure that billionaire global corporations like Apple, Google, and Walmart pay their fair share and can’t get away with tax-dodging antics.
Can you email your legislator in support of this important legislation?
- Look up your legislators here to see if they have already signed on.
- If they are co-sponsors, email them here to ask them to be champions of the bill.
- If they are not yet co-sponsors, email them here to ask them to show their support.
Did you know that Massachusetts taxes a smaller share of offshored corporate income than New Hampshire? An Act Combating Offshore Tax Avoidance (H.3110 / S.2033) would fix that, bringing us in line with the federal government and other states and raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new annual revenues.
Email, Call, and then Show Up
Want to make sure that your legislators hear that message loud and clear?
Join us next month — on Wednesday, May 28, at 10 am at the State House — for our annual lobby day.
