Working people in Pennsylvania are in the midst of something Big Tech billionaires hoped lawmakers would consider impossible.

After months of organizing, trainings, lobby days, meetings, and direct action, the Pennsylvania House passed a Digital Ad Tax that, if enacted into law, will raise as much as $600 million annually by requiring companies like Amazon, TikTok, and Meta to pay taxes on the revenue they generate from targeting everyday people with advertisements online.

That victory happened because people organized. Now we need to build on it.

Big Tech companies make billions of dollars collecting information about what we watch, search for, purchase, and do online. They turn that information into targeted advertisements and enormous corporate profits.

But while those profits grow, working families are told there is not enough money for public schools, healthcare, food assistance, housing, transit, or the services that help seniors remain in their homes. We reject that false choice.

State lawmakers should not cut essential programs or raise taxes on working people while some of the wealthiest corporations in the world avoid contributing their fair share.

Pennsylvania has demonstrated that states can modernize outdated tax systems and require Big Tech companies to pay taxes on digital advertising revenue.

But corporate lobbyists are already working to stop this momentum. They want every state to keep protecting an economy that concentrates wealth in the hands of billionaires while denying our communities the investments they need.

Big Tech has its lobbyists. Working people have collective power.

Tell your state lawmakers to tax Big Tech’s digital advertising revenue and invest in our communities.