Georgia Fair Share

Our top priority

Make Corporations Pay Their Fair Share

Big corporations — including GE, Wells Fargo and more — are using their lobbyists and campaign contributions to rig the tax system in their favor, and some pay nothing in taxes.
 
That costs the rest of us $100 billion per year in lost taxes.

Join with Georgia Fair Share, and tell your member of Congress: Close corporate tax loopholes, and put America back to work.

 

 

ABOUT GEORGIA FAIR SHARE

Standing up for working families & middle class values

• Georgia Fair Share works to provide every Georgia resident with a fair shot at a good job, a secure future and a healthy, productive life by standing up to the Tea Party conservatives and Wall Street interests who block progress at every turn.

• Through door-to-door canvassing and grassroots lobbying, we press local and national government to do its job and defend working families against the privileged and powerful.

• And, we help elect leaders who will work for a fair economy and work to defeat politicians who place extreme ideology and corporate profits ahead of ordinary citizens.
 

Grassroots action that gets results

• Georgia Fair Share is part of the Fair Share network. Together, we talked face-to-face with hundreds of thousands of voters in critical battleground states to help re-elect President Obama in 2012 and prevent a wholesale Wall Street takeover of Congress in 2010.

• We followed up these efforts by reaching out in neighborhoods and activating our network of supporters to help pass measures that have saved millions of jobs and protected consumers by cracking down on health insurance companies and reining in the Wall Street mega-banks.

Put America Back to Work

America has work to do: We need new schools, more teachers and better roads, bridges and transit systems. At the same time, millions of people who are ready, willing and able to get these jobs done are still unemployed.
 
It’s time to put America back to work. We can rehire teachers and firefighters who were laid off in the recession. We can put people to work building and rebuilding schools and fixing our roads and bridges. And we can pay for it by cutting $200 billion in wasteful subsidies and tax loopholes for the biggest corporations.
 
Learn more about Georgia Fair Share's campaign to Put America Back to Work.

Middle Class Tax Cuts First

In a victory for Georgia Fair Share's Middle Class Tax Cuts First campaign, Senate leaders and the White House came together on Jan. 1 to work out a compromise deal to extend critical tax cuts for American’s income up to $450,000 for a household, preventing a major tax hike on America’s middle class. The compromise bill passed both the Senate and the House, and was signed by President Obama. The Middle Class Tax Cuts First campaign brought together Georgian small businesses and community organizations to call for extending middle class tax cuts.
 
We are grateful that President Obama, Vice President Biden and leaders in the Senate came together to craft a bipartisan bill that will extend tax cuts for the middle class. Families and small businesses can breathe easier this new year, knowing that their taxes will not go up drastically in 2013. Read more >