Tax The Rich!
NATIONAL TAX DAY FLASHMOB TARGETS
WEALTHY CORPORATIONS TO PAY FAIR SHARE:
SF CITY HALL WEDDING AND TAX THE RICH SHUFFLE

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At least 100 people pulled a stealth move inside SF City Hall on Tax Day, Monday April 18 as Miss Filthy & Rich married Mr. Greedy Corporations in a match made in hell. They joined thousands of others across the nation in seven cities in various flash mob actions that included community members, the unemployed and underemployed, and people who have faced foreclosure. They joined forces and descended on bank offices, corporate headquarters, city halls and at post offices on tax day in seven major critics in a Tax the Rich shuffle.

In San Francisco, members, allies and volunteers from CJJC, People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), and other Bay Area Right to the City members were witnesses to the marriage of corporations to the government. With Supervisor John Avalos performing the ceremony, he asked if there were “any objections to this marriage,” at which point the observing group yelled “YES WE object!” and started singing that wealthy corporations and individuals should “pay what they owe, time to give up the dough,” to provide revenue to create jobs and to maintain community services and save homes.  

Causa Justa :: Just Cause, along with our partners in our national alliance Right to the City (RTTC) have the antidote to Greed. Three simple taxes will create $778.50 billion dollars annually which could not only stop budget cuts but could put millions of people to work by creating living wage jobs with benefits.

Tax #1: Close all corporate loopholes so major corporations actually pay their fair share.  Eliminating loopholes would generate $400 billion over the next 10 years.
Tax #2: A very small tax on the trading of financial products (0.25% or $1 on every $400 dollars of trading) – stocks, bonds, currencies and derivatives based on these products – would raise at least $500 billion annually.  
Tax #3: A 1 percent wealth tax on the top five percent of households would raise $338.5 billion a year.