As congressional recess ends, Opportunity Wisconsin calls on Van Orden to fight for working families and reject GOP tax handouts for the wealthy and big businesses
Monday, July 10, 2023
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Full page ads featuring a new political cartoon are running across the 3rd Congressional District, urging Congressman Derrick Van Orden to reject an extreme Republican tax plan as Congress reconvenes this week.
Ads in the La Crosse Tribune and Stevens Point Journal illustrate the massive windfall that the top income earners would receive under a new Republican proposal, while working families would see meager tax changes. The proposal would expand and extend many portions of the Trump-backed tax bill in 2017, which disproportionately benefited the wealthy and big corporations.
“Working families expect Congressman Van Orden to fight for them, but this tax plan doesn’t do that. Instead, Republicans in Congress want to extend a disastrous plan that increases our deficit while giving massive handouts to the wealthiest Americans and big corporations,” said Opportunity Wisconsin Program Director Meghan Roh. “Giving more than $16,000 a year to those at the top, while barely giving working families enough for a tank of gas doesn’t add up. Congressman Van Orden should put his constituents first and reject this extreme plan.”
Nonpartisan budget experts estimate the package will cost nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars over the next decade as a result of massive handouts to the most well-off individuals and big corporations. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimatesthat the richest 1 percent of Americans would receive an average windfall of $16,560 each year – that’s nearly half the median income of an average Wisconsinite. Meanwhile, the poorest 20 percent of Americans would receive an average savings of only $40 a year.
In addition to running full page ads across the district, Opportunity Wisconsin will deliver the political cartoon to Congressman Van Orden’s La Crosse office today at 10:00 AM. Members of the media who would like to cover the delivery and speak with Opportunity Wisconsin’s grassroots advocates should contact press@opportunitywisconsin.org.
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