Send Your Letter to the Editor
Send a letter to the editor on making the rich pay what they owe.
Did you know? Letters to the editor are still one of the most-read parts of the news.
Why now: Billionaires, and the politicians they’ve paid for in DC, are taking away food security, health care, and affordable utilities to fund a massive tax giveaway to the wealthiest in our country. HR 1 passed by Congress in July 2025 gives away an estimated $7 billion a year in tax cuts to the super-rich in Washington state, while taking away what working Washingtonians really need - affordable healthcare, food, and places to live.
TIPS FOR GETTING YOUR LETTER PUBLISHED
Keep your letter to 100 - 200 words.
Refer to a recent article. Reach out to info@investwanow.org if you need help with this - we’re happy to help!
Explain your connection. Are you a parent who wants fully funded schools? A patient who needs affordable health care? A neighbor who wants to see everyone in our community have a safe place to sleep? Share a personal experience or anecdote.
Include a call to action and name your state legislator so they’ll see it.
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KEY MESSAGES
Trump and his congress are rigging the system to help billionaires - not the rest of us.
By the skin of their teeth, Donald Trump and his followers in Congress managed to pass a budget and tax bill that permanently slashes tax rates for big corporations and gives the biggest tax handouts to billionaires and the top 1%, while giving table scraps, at best, to working families.
Everyday Americans pay what we owe in taxes every single year. Our taxes pay for Medicaid, food assistance, Head Start, and all of the programs that we all depend on.
Medicaid isn’t fraudulent, food assistance isn’t wasteful—it’s what we all pay into. Gutting these lifelines in order to give more money to billionaires and big corporations, who don’t pay their fair share in taxes, is the true fraud.
Federal tax cuts will cost Washingtonians.
Trump’s Congress is giving away $1.1 trillion to the rich in tax cuts and they’re paying for them by cutting health care and other services.
Wealthy Washingtonians will receive billions in tax cuts every year under the Big Ugly Bill.
Collectively, the wealthiest 5% of Washingtonians (those making over $447,400 annually) will get $7 billion in tax breaks. Over a period of three years, this is enough money to have more than covered our state’s $16 billion four-year budget shortfall that the legislature had to address this past session.
Our state’s elected leaders have a choice: Allow hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians to lose access to Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital services. Or tax the wealthy few who are getting even wealthier under this bill.
We’re coming together to demand the mega-rich pay what they owe.
We’re standing up to say: enough is enough. It’s time to ask the wealthiest in Washington to pay what they truly owe in taxes.
Despite not paying their fair share, the rich have amassed outsized power to shape our laws and keep the system rigged in their favor.
We must rewrite the rules so the rich and big corporations finally pay their fair share—so that our tax dollars are invested in the things that help all of us—not just billionaires—thrive: health care, food, child care, schools, clean energy, and more