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Americans for Tax Fairness

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We’ve been fighting for ten years to build an economy that works for all of us by making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share in taxes. Follow us on all socials to boost tax fairness ➡️ @4taxfairness

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 22d

BREAKING: Billionaires in America now hold a record $7.6 TRILLION in wealth.

That's a $4.7 TRILLION increase since the last Trump tax scam.

Yes, wealth increase is a form of INCOME. And most of that income will never be taxed.

This is why we need a Billionaires Income Tax.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 15h

The same people who just gave billionaires tax breaks have shut down the government rather than keeping our healthcare premiums from spiking.

Tells you everything you need to know.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 18h

If I was in charge of the House, Senate, and White House, and all I needed to do to avoid a government shutdown was agree to stop healthcare premiums from spiking... I'd probably do that.

Especially if I'd JUST cut healthcare to give billionaires tax breaks.

Just my two cents.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 20h

We can't accept skyrocketing premiums from the same people who just gave billionaires tax breaks.

Call your member of Congress at (877) 851-2521 ☎️

Thank a Democrat for holding the line.

Tell a Republican to stop healthcare premiums from spiking and end the shutdown.

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fran #DemForce @newpage-fd.bsky.social · 23h

Two rural hospitals in the western Upper Peninsula of MI did close this summer...yes gone‼️

Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 7d

Republicans passed a bill in July that's ALREADY leading to hospital closures including children's hospitals, and surgery and maternity centers.

Threatening millions of more people's healthcare is unacceptable.

If we're so broke, repeal the tax cuts you just gave billionaires.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 22h

via @protectourcare.org

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 22h

Healthcare premiums are about to double across America.

Georgia 📈 +$2,064
Idaho 📈 +$1,472
Maryland📈 +$1,089
Nevada📈 +$1,425
New York📈 +$1,111
Virginia📈 +$1,342

In these same states, billionaires are set to get six-figure tax breaks.

THIS is what the shutdown is about.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 2d

If trickle-down economics worked, Elon Musk wouldn't be the first person worth $500 billion while everyone else struggles to afford groceries, gas, and rent.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 2d

The top 0.1% of highest-income households will each on average receive a tax cut of over $286,000 next year.

It’s not that we’re broke, it’s that we’re spending money on the wrong things.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 3d

Elon Musk is the first person worth $500 billion because Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Donald Trump all spent the last five decades changing the tax code to cut taxes for the wealthy.

Let's call a spade a spade.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 3d

Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $500 billion.

And no one can afford a mortgage, healthcare, student loans, or groceries.

Trickle-down economics is BS.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 4d

Elon Musk (an immigrant) recently joined a UK protest to stoke violent rhetoric about immigrants.

Both the UK and the US are seeing their middle class shrink and struggle with basic necessities like housing and healthcare while their billionaires are richer than ever before.

Telegraph headline: tax the middle class more but leave ‘very richest’ alone, Reeves urged
Chancellor should raid average households to fill black hole, says Sainsbury’s tycoon’s think tank

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 4d

Only in America can the entire government shut down while a single billionaire reaches $500 billion in wealth.

If Trump agreed to give back the healthcare funding he stole to give billionaires tax breaks, we wouldn't even be in this situation.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 5d

Health care subsidies for more than 20 million are on the chopping block because the people in charge refused to extend them and gave tax breaks to billionaires instead.

THAT is what this government shutdown is about.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 5d

Let me get this straight.

The same people who just gave our healthcare money to billionaires and added $4 trillion to the deficit are now shutting down the government because they want to steal more healthcare money to give it to billionaires?

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 6d

You know who would suffer if we let the government open back up without restoring healthcare funding?

Entrepreneurs. Small businesses. Nonprofits.

They can't afford for healthcare costs to rise.

And their employees who depend on the Marketplace can't afford rising premiums.

“Healthcare is currently our absolute biggest hurdle as a small business. We cannot afford to pay premiums for our employees while we also are in a position where we need to scale. We cannot attract the talent we would like to because we cannot afford to offer healthcare through our business.” Mike and Mel Ohlinger, Ohmco, Neenah, WI

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 6d

Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $500 billion.

Tax billionaires.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 7d

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot believe we're actually firing people, shuttering agencies, and closing down public services because Trump and his cronies gave billionaires tax breaks instead of keeping healthcare funding going.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 7d

We're here because of Trump's failed policies that prioritize his wealth and his buddies' riches over the rest of us.

It doesn't have to be this way.

We need a budget that works for our country, not billionaires' gorged pocketbooks.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 7d

Jobs are down, CEO pay is up.

Trickle-down economics is a LIE.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 8d

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

‘They will pay a huge price for this’: Shutdown-ready Trump expects Democrats to blink

Many Democrats believe the White House is bluffing and insist Republicans will bear responsibility for a shutdown in the public eye because the GOP controls the government.

www.politico.com

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 8d

All we're asking for is funding to let people keep their healthcare.

According to the White House, Trump heard that demand and literally said, "Go f*ck yourself."

(Seriously, look it up.)

They gave tax breaks to billionaires but they're refusing to give us our healthcare.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8d

Hear from Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social and more great guests at tonight’s rapid response call. We need to act fast to hold Republicans accountable for forcing a government shutdown.

MASS CALL- Healthcare Not Authoritarianism: Shutdown Showdown · Healthcare Not Authoritarianism

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have spent the past nine months selling out working families in order to give tax breaks to their billionaire friends. Now they’re taking us into a governmen...

www.mobilize.us

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 8d

Let's be very clear.

Trump is shutting down the government because he refuses to give people their healthcare.

Instead of keeping healthcare funding going, he handed billionaires tax breaks.

This is 100% about stealing from us to give to the rich.

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