Revenue would be raised by $3.6 trillion, through the Build Back Better Act, to support investments in an inclusive, high-growth economy.

The growth of our economy has been gradually eroded by policies constructed by politicians controlled by the same corporate oligarchy working to undermine our democracy. Enriching themselves, while poor and middle working-class Americans foot the bill for tax cuts and regulatory giveaways for the mega-wealthy and biggest corporations. Stealing every cent they can away from programs that help our families and communities. The tax deductibility of private jets isn’t the most important feature of U.S. tax law, but the fact that billionaires’ luxury rides come with millions in tax savings says a lot about how the system really works. Especially when the average American working family must continuously fight for paid leave, affordable healthcare, and wages that reflect inflation and cost of living today.

It does NOT have to be this way. In America, we have the resources and capacity to create an economy that supports everyone, corrects employment injustices, and prioritizes workers over shareholders. If only our policy and empathy would align with our power as organized voters under common cause – our elected officials will work for us to this end.

Together, we can create a country where corporations create jobs in America and invest locally. Instead, we have an ailing system where corporations outsource jobs to low-wage countries and hide their profits overseas through loopholes government officials know about and perpetuate. Using this as a vehicle to hamper increasing wages for labor in America.

A further consequence of this, is the reality that many American children go hungry, and many working-class families are without the ability to access affordable healthcare. It is an embarrassment and a travesty that our government perpetuates economic injustice to this degree as our nation flounders behind other industrialized nations on quality-of-life indexes. Our current system supports an elite few, terminally impairing the growth of the many.

Building a grassroots movement of aggressive advocates and voters eager to exercise their power as a collective. Simultaneously utilizing a strategic inside-outside approach encompassing partnering with other organizations, political champions, and electing progressive talent from root to stem of government bureaus and legislative bodies. Cultivating a strong, educated, and engaged voter pool will position us to advance the most transformative economic justice agenda since progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. Putting pressure on legislators tempted to pursue watered-down solutions.

Fighting for the investments we need across the economy to strengthen our middle class. Politicians will often make appeals to austerity to reduce the federal deficit. Instigating panic about the national debt, meanwhile cutting taxes for the top 1%, giving incentives for yacht and private jet purchases, corporate welfare bailouts for billion-dollar companies, and cutting social security benefits for our elderly. We will not give in to the hypocrisy of career politicians paid for by corporate lobbying. Apathy in issues facing the 99% will be uprooted wherever it is found.

Supporting policy that creates an inclusive economy for all people – not just the few. Ensuring upward financial mobility and advancement is not reserved for the wealthiest families. Reclaiming power for our workers, families, and communities will need structural changes through bold, strategic, and progressive advocacy. We can do all of this together.