Today, about fifteen people gathered in front of the IRS building in Fresno, CA to protest current tax policies that favor corporations and the rich. As this man said:
One woman had a message on both sides of her sign:
And this woman had photocopied many "Bush dollars" to make her point:
The group passed out a flyer with information gleaned from A Joint Project of Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, produced by a nonpartisan research and advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice that fights for tax fairness. The protesters chanted "Pay your taxes" and called out the names of 37 corporations that paid no tax in 2010, including: Verizon, Boeing, General Electric, PG&E, El Paso, DuPont, International Paper, Capital One Financial, Yahoo.
The demonstration in Fresno was one of many across the country organized by Move-On.org and other groups "to express our outrage that the super-rich and tax-dodging corporations are paying less in taxes than the rest of us." Here is more of the message from Move-On:
Tax Day is on Tuesday, and progressives have a unique chance to amplify a simple message—"Tax the 1%"—through hundreds of coordinated protests across the nation. Taxing billionaires and companies like GE and Wells Fargo their fair share has to be a big issue in the fall election if we're going to see change—and this is the day of the year when the media is most likely to cover the story of our unfair tax system.