Donations spotlight: Support Americans for Tax Fairness in its fight to make the wealthy pay their fair share

Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This March, Americans for Tax Fairness is among three amazing groups that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO Mobile community will be vital to the nonprofit as it fights to build an economy that works for all of us by making the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share in taxes.

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Should billionaires and big corporations get even more tax cuts? And should we slash healthcare, housing and education to pay for them?

We’re in the middle of a generational fight. President Trump wants to extend his 2017 tax cuts and funnel over $5 trillion to, largely, the ultrawealthy and large corporations. To pay for those cuts, he plans to dismantle essential programs that working-class and middle-class families rely on. At Americans for Tax Fairness, we’re fighting back. We’re a tax-reform coalition of over 400 national and state endorsing organizations with a track record of successfully shaping public opinion on taxes throughout our 13-year history.

Let’s be clear. Trump and his cronies have crafted a tax code—and an economy—that benefits the elite at the expense of working people. Since 2017, the wealth of billionaires has soared to record heights while working-class and middle-class families have fallen behind. The goal of the wealthy now is to entrench this unfair system, further fatten their bank accounts and tighten their grip on our democracy and our economy.

Make no mistake. Working families will pay, one way or another. Wealthy people won’t. Trump, his billionaire co-president Elon Musk and their ideological partners in Congress are trying to cut trillions of dollars from public services, including Medicaid, climate response, education and food assistance.

A massive redistribution of wealth

Another way the Republicans plan to fund their tax cuts for the wealthy is by adding to the national debt. This sort of deficit-spending is a smart strategy during recessions or other national emergencies, when it’s needed to support the economy and working families. But running up huge debt just to fund tax cuts for the rich is a disgraceful waste. Higher national debt tends to drive up interest rates, which makes anything consumers buy on credit—from houses to cars to appliances—more expensive.

All told, the GOP’s fiscal plans represent a massive redistribution of wealth upward from the middle class and working class to the richest people in our country. At ATF, we’re dedicated to making sure the American people recognize, understand and remember the grand larceny that’s happening before our eyes and hold accountable those who are responsible.

We have the tools and experience to accomplish this goal. Our broad coalition includes labor unions, think tanks, women’s organizations, civil rights groups and many other representatives of the progressive movement. For over a dozen years, we’ve been educating Congress, the media and the general public on the real-world impact of tax policy.

Working with our coalition members and allies over the past year, we’ve met with the staff of all the Democratic leaders in Congress and the tax-writing committees—150 Capitol Hill meetings in all—to press the proven case that the American people want corporations and the rich to pay more in taxes, not receive more tax cuts.

We released a dozen full-scale national reports in 2024, most of them focused on tax-dodging and other financial misbehavior by hyper-wealthy people and big corporations. Our social media messaging continues to shine, racking up tens of millions of impressions across platforms while often setting the tone and framing for progressive economic messaging.

In traditional media, last year we reached a potential audience of 7 billion people. This includes over 1,500 digital and print articles across five different languages in major national outlets like ABC, CNBC, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Axios.

A plan for resistance

The American people are understandably overwhelmed by the chaotic aggressions of the Trump administration. Americans for Tax Fairness is singularly well-positioned to fight back against the largest single piece of that punishing agenda: GOP plans to cut taxes further on the rich and big corporations and make the rest of us pay for it. Working with allies old and new, we’ll make sure the American people know what’s happening. Working together, we will resist and we will win.

To learn more, please visit us online at Americans for Tax Fairness.