Meet the billionaires funding the Republican theft of your Medicare & Social Security. Call your MAGA rep with one click using this free app.

Reverse Robin Hood: The Republican budget rob the poor of their Medicare and Social Security to pay their billionaire donors.

Billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and retail workers. Thanks to a tax code that favors income from wealth over income from work—and a slew of tax-avoidance strategies—the richest among us end up paying a smaller percentage of their income to the federal government than most working families.

• In 2024, billionaire wealth increased by $1.4 trillion OR $3.9 billion per day. There were 74 new billionaires.

• According to a 2021 White House study, the wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
  
• According to leaked tax returns highlighted in a ProPublica investigation, the 25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes from 2014-2018 a “true” tax rate of just 3.4 percent on $401 billion of income. - Oxfam

Who are the biggest billionaire donors to the GOP? How much have they donated to fund the Republican budget that steals from your Medicare and Social Security to make billionaires richer? How can you call you MAGA rep? Use this free app designed with Glide using data from Open Secrets.

Billionaire tax dodgers

ProPublica, a journalism nonprofit is claiming several of the richest Americans paid zero income tax in some recent years. ProPublica claims to have seen tax returns showing Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos -- the world's richest person -- made zero payments in 2007 and 2011. Meanwhile the world's second-richest tycoon, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, also paid precisely zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2018. - YouTube

Republicans belong to that sect of Christianity that worship wealth, not Christ

"So the Republican Party is well under way in passing a budget to extend the tax cuts to the rich enacted in Trump's first term. And in fact adding more tax cuts for the rich and cutting funding to the IRS just in case some rich folk still don't have enough and want to cheat on their returns. And how is this to be paid for? For the most part it's not, but Republicans are trying by severely cutting Medicaid.

Everybody knows the poor don't need health care, only the rich do. But don't the Republicans taut themselves as devout Christians and didn't Christ preach helping the poor? Oh, wait, I forgot the Republicans belong to that sect of Christianity that worship wealth, not Christ.

And the debt rating of the US has been lowered because of all this, so the tax cuts will cost even more, but doesn't matter as long as the rich get their tax cuts." - Charles McDonald in Tucson

Rob from the poor. Give to the rich.

Open Secrets: Your home for money in politics

Open Secrets is a nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit. Their mission is to serve as the trusted authority on money in American politics. They pursue our mission by providing comprehensive and reliable data, analysis and tools for policymakers, storytellers and citizens. Their vision is for Americans to use data on money in politics to create a more vibrant, representative and responsive democracy.

TakeAway: Call your MAGA rep. They are paid with your tax dollars to serve your interests, not to make their billionaire donors richer at your expense.

Deepak
DemLabs

DISCLAIMER: ALTHOUGH THE DATA FOUND IN THIS BLOG AND INFOGRAPHIC HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND PROCESSED FROM SOURCES BELIEVED TO BE RELIABLE, NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED CAN BE MADE REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY SUCH INFORMATION. THIS DISCLAIMER APPLIES TO ANY USES OF THE INFORMATION WHETHER ISOLATED OR AGGREGATE USES THEREOF.