VOTE NO - FEDERAL TAX REFORM - GET THE DETAILS (link updated regularly)

Friends, Last Friday, Senate Republicans pushed through a tax bill that should make every educator, parent, and supporter of public education seething mad. The bill could lead to nearly $250 billion in cuts to our classrooms to pay for a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. That means almost $500 less in spending per student, every year, so the rich can get richer. The plan also puts 250,000 educator jobs at risk nationwide. Now, final negotiations are underway between House and Senate Republican leaders, with  a final vote due as early as next week. We need you to contact your Members of Congress today, and demand they vote NO on the tax plan. Call now. Crippling cuts to education and potential educator job losses aren't the only reasons you should be reaching for your phone to call your representative. The tax plan: Includes a backdoor voucher program-that will mostly benefit the wealthy Could eliminate the classroom expenses tax deduction for educators who spend money on classroom supplies out of their own pockets Will cut the individual mandate for health care, resulting in 13 million people losing their coverage, and dramatically higher premiums to spike for millions more Explodes the deficit, which GOP lawmakers already say they will use as a reason to gut Medicare and slash Social Security benefits. This tax scam is a nothing but a giveaway to corporate special interests and the wealthy, paid for now and later by working families and students. We can't be silent. Congress needs to hear from more of us. Call your Members of Congress today, and tell them to vote NO on the tax plan. Thank you, Marc Egan Director of Government Relations National Education Association Published weekly by the National Education Association. To subscribe:http://edadvocacy.nea.org/home. Privacy Policy

Trump's Tax Plan and How It Would Affect 

You. Follow this link: (Updated regularly)

https://www.thebalance.com/trump-s-tax-plan-how-it-affects-you-4113968

Tax bill ‘will hurt public education’

The National Education Association has released a state-by-state analysis of how the Republican  tax bill would affect public schools, and it concludes that in the next decade, $370bn worth of state and local revenue and 370,000 education jobs are at risk. Meanwhile, commenting on the forthcoming bill, Sasha Pudelski, assistant director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators, said: “We have provisions that are incentivizing parents to keep students in private schools or send them to private schools. If there’s going to be tax breaks in the bill, giving it to the parents in the private education system over the public education system doesn’t make any sense.”

New York Times