For those shy about contacting reps on this week's important issues

havocmom

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Tue Jun-06-06 09:15 PM
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For those shy about contacting reps on this week's important issues

Edited on Tue Jun-06-06 09:17 PM by havocmom

People For The American Way page for easy emails on several important issues.

You fill in your address, the site will figure your reps and get email ready. You can go with their pre-formatted note, edit/add to it, or scrap it all together and write your own message. If you want, the site will generate a copy of your email and send it to you along with confirmation that the email went to your reps. It is easy and painless.

Not as much fun as calling offices ;) but for the novices or the shy, it takes the pain out of being heard.

I sent off emails on several issues today. You can too, even if you have never done it before! Come on, it'll make you feel better. Nothing beats stress, fear, or depression like a little direct action!

Here's what I sent to my reps on the repeal of the estate tax. The part that was already on the site form that I kept in my message is italicized so you can see how easy it is to modify the message or completely write your own.

All the PR the 17 richest families in America can buy will not change the fact that I KNOW this tax only affects one half of one percent of the estates in America. Calling it a death tax to scare people is a lie. Truth is to repeal the Estate Tax is to IMPOSE a BIRTH Tax on every single citizen of this nation, due to the impact on the deficit!

Stop pandering to rich people and do the right thing for ALL Americans. Do not impose a BIRTH TAX on all, including the poorest and most at risk members of our society just so rich people can concentrate more wealth at the top

Scions of the ultra wealthy have more opportunities to "pull themselves up by their boot straps" than do the kids of the poor and working class. If the heirs of the top can't manage to make it from the rather nice position they are starting from, no amount of inheritance will help them!

Permanently repealing or gutting the Estate Tax is wrong. The American people have needs that must be met, and Sen. Kyl�s bill permanently repealing the tax would cost a trillion dollars in its first ten years, and only benefit a relative handful of America�s wealthiest families. Compromise bills that would also gut the Estate Tax are equally unacceptable. We can�t afford this wrongheaded tax cut.

It�s common sense. Passing another trillion dollars in crippling debt onto future generations will drain the government�s capacity to effectively provide for Americans in areas like health care and education and burden tax payers and consumers with significant additional costs.

Please vote NO on the repeal or gutting of the Estate Tax.

After you have sent a few of these out, you'll be an old pro offical rabble rouser! You may be up to making direct phone calls in no time! You may be so pleased with your original comments you will be inspired to write some letters to the editor of your local newspapers!

If you are a novice at all this but concerned about the direction our policy makers are taking America, give it a try. We need you on the team as activists! It feels GOOD. It is part of your heritage as an American! It's empowering and it pisses off Dick Cheney!
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