Progressive Taxation

Tell Senator Lieberman: No Tax Breaks for Millionaires

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Did you know that Senator Lieberman supports tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans over real relief for working families?

Tell Senator Lieberman to support a FAIR tax cut. We need a plan to address the jobs crisis, not tax cuts that are inefficient and ineffective.

With Congress preparing to debate the future of the Bush-era tax cuts, Senator Lieberman made a stop at the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce to express his support for cutting taxes for the richest 2 percent of taxpayers:

“The more money we leave in private hands, the quicker our economic recovery will be. And that means I will do everything I can to make sure Congress extends the so-called Bush tax cuts for another year, and takes action to prevent the estate tax from rising back to where it was.”

Senator Lieberman is just plain wrong. [Click here to tell him.] Additional tax cuts for the rich are unaffordable and inefficient. Cutting taxes for the wealthiest among us will cost $40 billion in 2011, $830 billion over 10 years and up to $1 trillion after factoring in interest. This money should be used to protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare, to create jobs, and to reduce the deficit.

The Congressional Budget Office examined 11 strategies for creating jobs and boosting our economy. The CBO found that of those strategies studied, tax cuts for the wealthiest finished dead last. Middle-income and working class families are more likely to spend the tax savings they receive. [Rich Americans Save Tax Cuts Instead of Spending, Moody's Says]

The priority should be to provide economic relief to the vast majority of Americans who need it. Working families and the middle class are hurting in this economy and need help now.

Extending the Bush-era tax cuts is yet another attack on working families. Many of the same members of Congress who were against extending unemployment benefits support of tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

Tell Senator Lieberman to support a FAIR tax cut. We need a plan to address the jobs crisis, not tax cuts that are inefficient and ineffective.

Connecticut Has Better Choices

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The Better Choices for Connecticut coalition rallied at the Capitol this week to oppose cuts to vital services and to express support for increasing revenues instead. The Better Choices plan proposes raising income taxes for the state's wealthiest residents--those who make $200,000+ every year--and closing corporate tax loopholes.

Governor Jodi Rell's proposal is to balance the budget on the backs of the poor by cutting much-needed services. This is far from a "shared sacrifice" when she has failed to ask the state's wealthiest residents to pay their fair share of taxes.

Connecticut can maintain quality services and balance the budget by asking for more from those who can best afford it.

Learn more about the Better Choices for CT proposal on the coalition's website.

More videos from the March 25th rally can be viewed below, just click on the "read more" link.

ECAP and CCAG Demand Senator Lieberman and Senator Dodd Vote “No” on the Paris Hilton Estate Tax Repeal

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Date: 
June 5, 2006
Contact: 
Phil Sherwood

Groups deliver Paris Hilton flyers to Citizens in downtown Hartford to highlight the negative impact the estate tax repeal would have on CT’s families-Call tax repeal yet
another tax cut for the super wealthy.

HARTFORD, CT –The Emergency Campaign for America’s Priorities (ECAP) joined the Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG) with a life-size cut out of Paris Hilton outside the Old State House in Hartford at today to urge Senator Lieberman and Dodd (D’s- CT) to vote no on the drastic reduction or repeal of the estate tax which would only benefit multimillionaires like Hilton. Congress is expected to vote on the estate tax issue with in days.

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