Trying to figure out how much a candidate's proposals fit with your values can be challenging. That's why we developed a valuable action tool to help you evaluate the fairness of tax proposals.
The Action Tool contains key progressive tax principles and sample questions to use when researching candidates' positions and for asking candidates directly. Using the Action Tool could influence candidates' positions and increase public support for fair taxation.
This bi-annual publication of the Tax
Fairness Organizing Collaborative (TFOC), showcases the critical
organizing experiences and victories of TFOC's members. Find back issues here.
June 17, 2008
Source: Tax Policy Center Table T06-0274, Nov. 13, 2006. (Does not include the effect of capital gains tax cuts enacted in 1997.)
*Includes wages and salaries, investment income, and government benefits on a pretax basis.
These are estimates of the personal share of the Bush tax cuts for the 2007 tax year.
As efforts to preserve the federal estate tax continue in 2008, estate
tax supporters from across the country will come together for an estate
tax briefing to be held during the Take Back America conference,
followed by a day of Capitol Hill visits to lobby Congressional
representatives and senators from their home districts.
March 11, 2008
Recently, oil companies have been raking in record profits off the
price of crude oil and gasoline. These profits are coming at the expense of
consumers, whose wallets have been increasingly pinched at the gas pump. In an effort to recover a portion of this obscene largess, legislators at
the state and federal levels have been considering the imposition of a windfall
profit tax (WPT).
While all states with sales taxes tax goods (i.e., furniture, computers, cars, etc),
only a few impose the sales tax on services - of which there are over 100
potentially-taxable categories (i.e., car repairs, exterminators, architecture, etc.).
Expanding the sales tax to services would not only raise substantial new revenue,
but would make state tax systems more fair, more stable, easier to administer and more
economically neutral.
Members of the Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative with interests in particular topics participate in affinity groups. Every couple months, UFE hosts a conference call on one of these topics and invites experts to be on the call as resources. It's an opportunity to learn, ask questions, and strategize. To date, UFE has hosted conference calls on the following topics: October 2, 2007
Tax fairness is the key to a fair economy, where the cost of maintaining a common government is shared on the basis of one's ability to pay.
