Fair Taxes & Economic Justice

USAction Education Fund advocates for economic policies guided by principles of fairness.  America can afford quality schools, expand healthcare access and protect vital services like Social Security and Medicare only when corporations and individuals pay their fair share.  USAction Education Fund promotes fair taxes because we believe in an economy that works for everyone.

No More Reckless Tax Breaks;
Invest in Public Services and Programs
USAction Education Fund is a member of Fair Taxes for All, a coalition of more than 300 national, state and local organizations representing millions of Americans who oppose the continued efforts to drain our nation's resources through reckless and irresponsible tax cuts.

Close Corporate Tax Loopholes
America's corporations enjoy some of the lowest taxes in the industrialized world.  At a time when our nation's budget resources are already stretched dangerously thin, USAction Education Fund opposes the handouts to big business that jeoparize critical public services like education, health care and law enforcement, and impact the long-term stability of programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Protect Jobs and Strengthen the Economy
Our nation's leaders should work to ensure that our nation's workers have good jobs with secure futures.  In the last four years, unemployment and underemployment rates have dramatically increased, and many workers who have found new work are settling for smaller paychecks.  USAction Education Fund supports policies that focus on strengthening America's economic stability and expanding opportunities for workers.

Read our fact sheet, Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

Preserve the Estate Tax
USAction Education Fund is a member of  Americans for a Fair Estate Tax, a broad-based, nonpartisan coalition of nonprofit groups, including civic, labor, social justice, faith-based, and environmental organizations, as well as organizations providing human services.  AFET advocates that instead of repealing the tax on multi-million-dollar estates, Congress should reform the estate tax to ensure that family farms and small businesses are not unfairly taxed while keeping 98 percent of taxpayers exempt and safeguarding Medicare, Social Security, education, charities and other key national priorities that would be threatened by a complete repeal.