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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWE CAN STOP THIS TAX BILL. But we need to act NOW. It could pass the Senate after T-giving.
Use the Trump Tax Toolkit: https://trumptaxtoolkit.org/
The nine senators below will cast deciding votes.
Don't see your senators below?
Call them at 202-224-3121!
If your senators ARE listed below - CALL THEM - EVERY DAY - until the bill is DEAD.
Sen. Bob Corker
(TN)
Call now!
(202) 224-3344
Sen. John McCain
(AZ)
Call now!
(202) 224-2235
Sen. Jeff Flake
(AZ)
Call now!
(202) 224-4521
Sen. Susan Collins
(ME)
Call now!
(202) 224-2523
Sen. Dean Heller
(NV)
Call now!
(202) 224-6244
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
(AK)
Call now!
(202) 224-6665
Sen. Jerry Moran
(KS)
Call now!
(202) 224-6521
Sen. Ron Johnson
(WI)
Call now!
(202) 224-5323
Sen. Todd Young
(IN)
Call now!
(202) 224-5623
diva77
(7,639 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Royal republican ream job on the near horizon.
"We must surely phone together, or we will all phone alone." - A. Chill Eaze
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)I have been getting the word out since Wed night. There is a plan from MoveOn.org, Indivisible, Bernie, etc. I got an emergence call to action Wed night. We must nail the senators at their homes and local offices with town halls and rallies while they are home for Thanksgiving Recess. When they return on Nov 29th a "Week of Action" begins where we protest, write, call, go to their DC offices, etc. The goal is to DELAY the Senate vote. Get out there NOW! RESIST!
Call all the reps. I live in a blue city and state and have called over 400 times in the past year (seriously). I pretend I am a constituent so the staffers on the phones will take my calls. If you go to Zillow and go to the state that the senator is from and get "homes for sale" listings and they have real addresses for houses and they NEVER check...It works! Since people have cell phones you can call from any area code using your own number. It literally takes 1 minute. Try it.
mchill
(1,017 posts)he doesn't like the pass-through rate. He could care less about individuals whose taxes are going up.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)him to know what his constituents think
zentrum
(9,865 posts)...to stay on the front page or be reposted every day until the day of the vote.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
DU should be part of organizing the push-back.
Fullduplexxx
(7,851 posts)videohead5
(2,171 posts)I can't do much but I would donate to put ads up on TV.raising taxes on the middle class so they can give tax cuts to the rich.cutting Medicare and Medicaid.this will get people really mad but a bunch of people don't know.I seen one ad but it was only about the ACA and the mandate.this bill needs to be hit hard with ads.
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)you can also use RESIST BOT on your smartphone to send them a free fax. Just text RESIST to 50409
Here are some talking points:
Ask them to say NO to the tax plan.
NO to cuts to medicare and Medicaid.
NO elimination of the ACA individual mandate.
NO tax cut for the wealthy. Trickle down economics has never worked!
No elimination of taking write offs for the middle class like student loan interest, mortgage loans and medical expenses.
calimary
(81,189 posts)Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)Our ONE democrat in Louisiana! I write Cassidy, Kennedy, Garrett Graves, etc. but they all vote party line. And this bill will kill our state. The pendulum WILL swing tho. It always does.
ismnotwasm
(41,974 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)The tRump tax scam includes changes in Social Security by using chained CPI (can you say "cat food commission"?), which runs afoul of the Byrd rule and cuts SS benefits over time, as if there were no COLA increases.
Call your Senator and persuade him or her to demand a point of order stating that Social Security changes are against the Byrd rule regarding what can go into a reconciliation bill.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)P.S. Faxes make an impact too, particularly when they start to pile up. Just look up on your Senators senate.gov site.
a kennedy
(29,642 posts)I WILL BE CALLING ALL OF THEM TOMORROW........ and thanks again for the numbers.
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)Tax breaks for blood-sucking treasonous lying billionaires.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)While Twitler tweets his daily dose of moran, they're going to try and ram this devastating joke of a plan through.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Kick
CousinIT
(9,238 posts)flamingdem
(39,312 posts)CousinIT
(9,238 posts)Senate will be voting on this THIS week! May pass it before Thanksgiving.
CALL.
CALL.
CALL.
DEFEAT THIS BILL!
CousinIT
(9,238 posts)CousinIT
(9,238 posts)Your weekly Indivisible to-dos (tax scam, tax scam, tax scam):
Make. a. phone call. NOW. Senate Republicans have combined their Tax Scam with zombie TrumpCare and they need to hear from you. Weve set up a toll-free number to make it even easier to make a call to stop the scam: 1-855-980-2350. We have Democratic call scripts and Republican call scripts to help guide conversations!
Schedule a visit to your Senators in-district offices ASAP. Its almost Thanksgiving, but many offices will be open today, tomorrow, and part of the day on Wednesday. We need to show up and we need to be L-O-U-D. Use our organizing toolkit to plan a visit and then register your event here.
Some of your members of Congress will also be making appearances at town halls this week. Make a plan to show up and ask the hard questions.
BONUS: Mark your calendars for next Monday, November 27. Indivisible Group Leaders are scheduling actions at Senators offices across the country. Well send you an email this weekend with events in your area! You can also search now to see if theres already an event scheduled in your area.
Our Co-Executive Director Ezra Levin will be on Facebook Live TONIGHT! Ezra and our policy team will talk about how we kill the #TrumpTaxScam, what we have planned for the day of action, and answer your questions live, on-air. Like us on Facebook now and youll get notified when we go live!
Call fellow progressives in key #TrumpTaxScam target states and patch them through to their Senators. Were bringing back a super effective peer-to-peer calling tool from the TrumpCare fight so you can take action to stop this bill by reaching out to progressive constituents in Alaska, Arizona, and West Virginia. Get started now.
Your voice will be the difference in this fight. We have to make a ton of noise between now and when the Senate comes back in session on November 27. They could pass this bill just a few days later.
Its going to take a lot of work, a lot of organizing to beat back this bill. But its so, so, so worth it to stop massive tax cuts for the wealthy, to save healthcare for 13 million people, and to ruin Trump and McConnells agenda.
The TrumpThreatLevel from Indivisibles: https://www.indivisible.org/resource/donald-trump-national-security-risk-heres-current-trumpthreatlevel/