11/25: Protest the Senate Tax Scam Bill on Dec. 2

PROTEST:  

                       What: Tax Scam in the Senate; Cory Gardner
supports it.

                       Where: 329 S. Camino Del Rio, Durango,
CO (Sen. office)*
                       Why: It’s a ripoff for working families and a gift
to the Top 1%. 

SUGGESTED MEMBER ACTION:   BRING SIGNS
“NO on Tax Scam Sen. Gardner”
“No Cuts to [Medicaid/Medicare/Social Security…]”
“Vote NO Sen. Gardner It’s A Ripoff”

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT:

• The bill would lower the corporate tax rate from the current 35% to 20% — permanently, the largest corporate tax reduction in U.S. history.
• Repeals the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance, reducing coverage for 13 million people.
• It would switch the U.S. to a “territorial tax system“ that taxes corporations based on domestic income only rather than worldwide income. So that 20% would not include any money made overseas. (Fortune)
• It would eliminate the “Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT),” which prevents companies that are making more than $7.5 million every three years from reducing their tax rate below a certain level. (Ways and Means)
• Cuts Medicaid by $179 Billion

• Bill opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil & gas drilling, to coax Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to vote yes.
• Would raise the deficit $1.5 Trillion over ten years to fund a tax cut of which half goes to the Top 1%
• Raises taxes on all middle-class families making $75,000 or less by the end of the decade in order to provide permanent tax relief to corporations.