Tell your Rep: Vote NO on #GOPTaxScam!

The House will need to vote on the tax bill again before it goes to Trump’s desk. We need to pull out all the stops to show our opposition to the #GOPTaxScam and stop this atrocity from getting to Trump's desk.

Thousands of people are making their voices heard this week in-person and on the phone. Can you join them? Bring a few friends to your representative's closest office and tell them to vote NO on the #GOPTaxScam. If your representative is a Democrat, thank them for standing strong. If your representative is a Republican, demand they vote NO -- or pay the price in 2018.

Find your closest office location here and let us know when you can go this week!

It's important to share your story with your representative when you visit. We'll email you a letter after you sign up to print and bring, along with your personal story if you shared one. Look out for an email from "Team Resist Here."

Once you're there, take a picture with your letter in front of the office and share it with #GOPTaxScam, tagging your representative and @ResistHere. Or take a Facebook Live video, telling the world how this immoral bill would hurt you and your family (here's some tips to get you started on Facebook Live). We'll share on social media.

Here's an update from our ally at MoveOn.org, Ben Wikler, on the current state of play from Dec. 4th, 2017:

Well past midnight on Friday, Republicans passed a mammoth tax giveaway to the ultra wealthy, crammed full of wild loopholes ranging from giveaways to heirs of multimillion-dollar estates to a special tax break for private school tuition. Leading congressional scholar Norm Ornstein tweeted, "There has never been a more outrageous, revolting, unfair process to pass a corrupted bill in the history of Congress."

At its heart is a mammoth handout for corporations that cuts their tax rate nearly in half. Some of this is paid for by raising taxes on the middle class, but much of it simply adds to the deficit—which Republicans have already announced their intention to address by slashing Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Not a single Democrat voted for this bill. But nearly every Republican did.

It's sickening. But this fight isn't over.

On Monday, Paul Ryan handpicks his "conferees"—Representatives who will hammer out a new bill with a group of Republican senators, resolving the many differences between the bills already passed by the House and Senate. Then, both chambers will have to vote again.

We shouldn't kid ourselves. This will be very, very hard to stop. We'd need to flip 11 House Republicans who voted for it the first time—or flip two Senate Republicans. The GOP is hell-bent on delivering for their wealthy donors. But just because it's a hard fight doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

For one thing, this bill raises taxes on the constituents of many of the most politically vulnerable House Republicans: those representing high-tax states like California, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. These Republicans have been nervous about the way the bill forces their constituents to pay taxes on the money they're already paying in state and local taxes. Until the final vote, it's worth flooding them with maximal pressure.

For another thing, this bill is hideously unpopular in most of the country. The only bill that has polled worse was the ACA repeal, and we all know what happened to that. If we keep hammering, the sheer political toxicity of this law could lead some savvy politicians to sour on it.

In fact, the nastiness of this law is exactly why the GOP is so determined to rush it. It's a political "win" only in the sense that it rewards their donors, which presumably will lead to more campaign contributions in 2018. But the more the public knows about what's in this bill, the more it hurts the GOP's chances with actual voters. And that's why it's critical to fight back, publicly and unignorably, because if we alert enough people to this act of legislative looting by the 1%, we can make this bill backfire. Our job is to sear into the public's mind that this bill is a massive transfer of money from the many to the few. Whether we win or lose the vote in Congress, we can make this bill a game-changer in the elections next year.


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