To: Howard Schultz, CEO, Starbucks
Starbucks Co: Stop Pushing Corp. Tax Breaks At Your Stores
Stop forcing your employees to lobby customers to support tax breaks for corporations and their billionaire CEOs.
This is what happened. In a letter posted on the company's website, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that D.C.-area Starbucks employees will be writing "Come Together" on customers' cups, encouraging Republicans and Democrats to "come together" on a budget deal that would avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff."
CEO Howard Schultz encourages employees to learn more about the "impending crisis" from the corporate-funded, CEO-friendly group Fix the Debt, which advocates for lower corporate tax rates and cuts to social services but refuses to take a stand on raising taxes on the rich.
Starbucks should not be lobbying its paying customers in this deceptive manner nor should it force its workers to impose this on customers.
This is what happened. In a letter posted on the company's website, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that D.C.-area Starbucks employees will be writing "Come Together" on customers' cups, encouraging Republicans and Democrats to "come together" on a budget deal that would avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff."
CEO Howard Schultz encourages employees to learn more about the "impending crisis" from the corporate-funded, CEO-friendly group Fix the Debt, which advocates for lower corporate tax rates and cuts to social services but refuses to take a stand on raising taxes on the rich.
Starbucks should not be lobbying its paying customers in this deceptive manner nor should it force its workers to impose this on customers.
Why is this important?
CEO Schultz is forcing his employees to lobby customers to support corporate tax breaks by writing "come together" on cups to "avoid the fiscal cliff" and "learn from" a corporate lobby, CEO-friendly group "Fix the Debt" which is for tax breaks for the rich.