“It’s the right thing to do. It’s massively impactful. It’s popular.”
Jake Johnson
“A one-time survival check isn’t enough to get people through this crisis.”
“Walmart, which pays its CEO nearly 1,000 times more than its average worker, would pay up to $855 million more in taxes.”
We need to be prepared for the next pandemic, and we can’t be under the current for-profit system
“Ending this pandemic requires collaboration, solidarity, and empathy. It requires a very different mindset—a mindset that puts people over profits at every turn.”
“I regard it as absurd that the parliamentarian, a Senate staffer elected by no one, can prevent a wage increase for 32 million workers.”
“The case against student loan forgiveness is looking shakier by the day… We can and should do it,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Dear centrist Democrats, you couldn’t even get 10 GOP votes to convict the guy who sent a mob to kill you all. You think you can get them to vote on issues like immigration/climate? Come on,” said one progressive activist
“Eighty-three percent of the benefits of the Trump tax plan went to the 1% and large corporations… There was not one Democrat that voted for that bill.”
“Oh look, another billionaire is mad that he might have to pay more taxes while children in America go hungry and veterans sleep on the street.”