To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Pass Raul Grijalva's Budget4All Plan!
Dear President and members of the House and Senate,
67% of Americans are opposed to raising the age of Medicare and over 60% are in support of raising taxes on the higher income earners. There is already a plan that the majority of the U.S. population supports and it was written by Raul Grijalva and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, entitled "The Budget Plan for All." If you want to pass legislation that the majority of Americans truly support, then you will do your job and you will pass this plan. It is time that you stopped bowing your heads to Wall Street, which created this economic mess that we are in, and started supporting the average Americans who were actually affected by the whole thing.
Thank you.
67% of Americans are opposed to raising the age of Medicare and over 60% are in support of raising taxes on the higher income earners. There is already a plan that the majority of the U.S. population supports and it was written by Raul Grijalva and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, entitled "The Budget Plan for All." If you want to pass legislation that the majority of Americans truly support, then you will do your job and you will pass this plan. It is time that you stopped bowing your heads to Wall Street, which created this economic mess that we are in, and started supporting the average Americans who were actually affected by the whole thing.
Thank you.
Why is this important?
Over 67% of Americans oppose raising the age of Medicare and over 60% support raising taxes on the higher income earners according to the most recent ABC News/Washington Post Poll:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/among-cliff-avoidance-options-most-favor-targeting-the-wealthy/
Yet, members of Congress are acting like they just do not have a choice but to cut programs that we the people have been paying our own tax dollars for, even though we are absolutely entitled to get exactly what we have been told that these tax dollars were going towards. However, it turns out that we actually CAN protect medicare, medicaid, social security, as well as strengthen education all while avoiding the "fiscal cliff" if we make the top 2% pay their fair share and we eliminate spending on things like corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies. The House Representative member, Raul Grijalva, and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus have created "The Budget for All" plan, which does exactly that. Yet, no one seems to be talking about it in the media nor are most Americans even aware of its existence:
http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/Executive%20Summary%20FINAL.pdf
Please tell members of congress and Barack Obama that this is exactly what the MAJORITY of the people of the United States want to be on the table for discussions when they try to decide what to do about the fiscal cliff that is coming up very soon. Tell them to quit their political posturing and to support Raul Grijalva's "The Budget for All" plan!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/among-cliff-avoidance-options-most-favor-targeting-the-wealthy/
Yet, members of Congress are acting like they just do not have a choice but to cut programs that we the people have been paying our own tax dollars for, even though we are absolutely entitled to get exactly what we have been told that these tax dollars were going towards. However, it turns out that we actually CAN protect medicare, medicaid, social security, as well as strengthen education all while avoiding the "fiscal cliff" if we make the top 2% pay their fair share and we eliminate spending on things like corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies. The House Representative member, Raul Grijalva, and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus have created "The Budget for All" plan, which does exactly that. Yet, no one seems to be talking about it in the media nor are most Americans even aware of its existence:
http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/Executive%20Summary%20FINAL.pdf
Please tell members of congress and Barack Obama that this is exactly what the MAJORITY of the people of the United States want to be on the table for discussions when they try to decide what to do about the fiscal cliff that is coming up very soon. Tell them to quit their political posturing and to support Raul Grijalva's "The Budget for All" plan!