Friend,
Jeff Bezos' 11-minute thrill ride to space is an insult to the millions of people here on planet Earth who struggle every day to feed their families and make ends meet. Many of them are the very Amazon workers who helped make Bezos the richest man in the world.
Our backward and corrupt tax system has allowed billionaires like Bezos to pay next to no federal income tax.
While hard-working American families pay an average of 14% income tax each year, Bezos and the other billionaires in this obscene race to space should be required to pay their fair share. This is truly not rocket science.
The real innovation we need is a fair tax system that would allow desperately needed investments into well-paying jobs, adequate care for our children, and efforts to save the planet we all live on from the climate crisis. Increasing taxes on the wealthiest individuals and big corporations could fund child care, feed families, and lift people out of poverty.
This country will never achieve a fair and equitable recovery from COVID-19 if we continue to have a system where corporations and the wealthy get richer while everyone else is left behind.
In Solidarity,
Gina Cummings Vice President Advocacy, Alliances, and Policy Oxfam America Action Fund.
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