Nurses, teachers, adjunct professors, airport workers and other hardworking Americans are rising up against the current tax plan that gives tax breaks to millionaires, billionaires and corporations at the expense of working families. Congressional leaders should be doing more to ensure working families—of all backgrounds—have access to good jobs, affordable quality healthcare and education, and a clear pathway to citizenship. Instead of doing the right thing for our families, these leaders are pushing a tax bill that takes money from working people to pay for their giveaways for large corporations and the wealthiest few.
Under the current proposed tax plan, working families face the threat of losing good jobs, access to quality education, healthcare and affordable housing. In two years, families earning less than $30,000 would be worse off under this disastrous tax plan.
The tax bill pays for tax cuts for wealthy corporations and millionaires by ripping vital healthcare away from 13 million Americans.
- The tax bill is another attempt to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement.
- Congressional leaders are putting the health of millions of working parents, grandparents and children at risk with this bill that gives tax cuts to greedy corporations by cutting vital programs including Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
- The horrible tax plan also hurts patients with high healthcare costs by eliminating the deduction for qualified medical expenses.
The tax bill not only makes it harder for working parents to get ahead in today’s economy, it snatches opportunities away from America’s children.
- This tax bill offers little to no benefits for working families; instead it hurts parents and children. More than 10 million children from low-income families are left out of this tax plan’s child care tax credit increase.
- The tax bill discourages our nation’s children to pursue their dreams of attending college by eliminating key tax deductions for students, including the interest paid on student loans and tuition credit.
The tax bill ignores the vital contributions immigrant and refugee families make to our country.
- While giving away tax cuts to millionaires, billionaires and corporations, it hurts immigrant communities by rolling back the Child Tax Credit for up to one million young DREAMers.
Congressional leaders want us to believe that cutting taxes for millionaires and corporations will help all Americans, but we know better.
- History has shown us that these types of tax breaks never “trickle down” to the right people.
- Working people are not fooled by these bait and switch tax provisions. We will fight back against these efforts, just as we have impeded attacks on our healthcare.
- SEIU members and other working people are fed up with self-interested politicians trying to rig the system. We are making the voices of all working families are heard on this issue.