TELL CONGRESS: Side with working families over Big Business. Oppose corporate tax breaks and make the EITC and Child Tax Credit permanent.
United States Congress
Instead of rewarding wealthy corporations with more permanent corporate tax breaks, help us make pro-work tax credits for working families permanent.
Thousands of corporate lobbyists are pressuring Congress to pass $400-$500 billion in corporate tax breaks before the end of the year. Meanwhile, unless Congress acts soon, key improvements to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit will expire, pushing more than 16 million people—including about 8 million children—into poverty or deeper into poverty.
Tell Congress to OPPOSE these corporate tax breaks and to SUPPORT renewing the improvements to the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit. Wall Street may be doing fine, but working families are struggling.
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Dear Member of Congress:
As you approach the end of the year, please oppose efforts to make any corporate tax breaks permanent. Instead, I ask that you make pro-work tax credits for working families permanent.
It’s time corporations started paying their fair share of taxes. Passing a Christmas tree of tax loopholes known as tax extenders loaded up with permanent tax breaks is the wrong way to go. And there should be no tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs and profits offshore.
Instead, please renew the critical improvements made to the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit that are set to expire. The EITC, which benefits low- to moderate-income people who are working, is one of the most successful anti-poverty tools ever developed. The Child Tax Credit allows working families to be credited $1,000 for each child in their family. Both of these tax credits must be extended.
Sincerely,