A new nationwide poll of small business owners’ views on taxes includes some findings that turn K Street lobbyists’ anti-tax talking points on their head. In particular, the poll found that small business owners are up in arms about corporate tax loopholes, offshore tax havens, and corporations and millionaires who don’t pay their fair share.Continue reading “Small Business Owners Say Big Corporations Not Paying Fair Share of Taxes”
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Affiliate Highlight: The Montana Organizing Project
Alliance for a Just Society affiliate The Montana Organizing Project (MOP) is a collaboration of diverse community, civic, labor, faith groups, and community members. Located in Missoula and Billings, MOP works on economic, racial and social justice issues, with the mission of promoting the dignity and empowerment of people with low and middle incomes whoContinue reading “Affiliate Highlight: The Montana Organizing Project”
ICAN Releases Idaho’s Payday Lending Industry Report
From our affiliate Idaho Community Action Network: On Monday, Jan. 16 2012, during a protest on EZ MoneyPayday Loans at EZCORP 2911 W. State Street in Boise, members of the Idaho Community Action Network released a report titled “Predatory Lenders Trap Idahoan’s in a Cycle of Debt.” According to the report, Idaho families are: “increasingly strugglingContinue reading “ICAN Releases Idaho’s Payday Lending Industry Report”
Keep Five Million Immigrant Children Out of Poverty
From Reform Immigration For America: It was only a few years ago that Congress changed the eligibly of a special tax credit for American families, to include undocumented parents with citizen children. This refund, known as the Additional Child Tax Credit, has granted over 2 million families a financial break on the money spent caring for theirContinue reading “Keep Five Million Immigrant Children Out of Poverty”
Small Business Owners Aren’t Buying Anti-Regulatory Hype
Over the past two weeks, the House of Representatives has been inundated with an alphabet soup of anti-regulatory legislation. Last week, the House debated and voted on the RAA (Regulatory Accountability Act) and RFIA (Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act), and this week on the REINS Act (Regulations in Need of Scrutiny from the Executive Act).
The 99% are Headed to DC to Take Back the Capitol
The Alliance for a Just Society is supporting the call for thousands of Americans to go to Washington, DC in the first week of December to make the voices of the 99% heard and counter the influence of the 1%. Alliance affiliates from Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Washington and Virginia will all make the trekContinue reading “The 99% are Headed to DC to Take Back the Capitol”
No Deal Is Better than a Bad Deal
Yesterday morning in Washington D.C., the Alliance for a Just Society helped crash a swanky fundraising event where Senator John Kyl was trawling for cash from corporate bigwigs. Kyl sits on the congressional joint committee tasked with reducing the federal deficit. While Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security hang in the balance, corporations and the oneContinue reading “No Deal Is Better than a Bad Deal”
Small Businesses to Supercommittee: Invest in the 99% Economy
With the deadline for an agreement from the Congressional Supercommittee less than a week away, small business owners in the Main Street Alliance network are calling on Congress to support policies that bolster the 99 percent and reject any budget-cutting deal that destroys more jobs and further weakens their customer base. From New York CityContinue reading “Small Businesses to Supercommittee: Invest in the 99% Economy”
Food Choices: Families or Corporations
Will Congress choose need or greed? Cutting the federal deficit means making some tough choices. The new report, Food Choices: Families or Corporations and online petition asks Congressional super committee members to look at bloated federal subsidies for giant corporations before they cut food assistance struggling families depend on. Released in partnership with theContinue reading “Food Choices: Families or Corporations”
Taking Our Money Back
On Saturday November 5th, the Alliance and its affiliates joined hundreds of thousands of activists from across the country for “Bank Transfer Day, a “deadline” of sorts calling for people to shift their funds from for-profit banking institutions to not-for-profit credit unions.