Making the Wealthy Pay

 

Did you know that the U.S. government loses out on $1 TRILLION each year that should be collected in tax revenue?¹ That's because our country's richest and most powerful have been writing—or more accurately, rigging—our tax code, cheating the American people every year.

Taxes are one of the most important national fights that progressives should be engaging in.

Taxing the rich and enforcing our tax law are key to passing a real, progressive agenda. Any one of our major priorities—Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, fully funded public education—starts by finally taxing the rich their fair share. And one measure, as Rep. Porter explains, is to fund our audit and investigation division, because every dollar we put into that arm of the IRS shakes loose many more dollars from the super-rich that comes into the public coffers.

1. "Tax cheats cost the U.S. $1 trillion per year, I.R.S. chief says." The New York Times, April 13, 2021
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