The U.S. tax code is our nation’s mutual aid system. It is intended to collect and distribute resources that support our shared thriving, such as education, healthcare, infrastructure, and jobs. However, our money is being stolen by wealthy elites and greedy corporations who are rigging the rules in their favor to avoid paying taxes and hoard wealth.

This pursuit of individual wealth-building has choked our nation’s ability to build enough collective wealth (wealth controlled by the public through government budgets and monetary policy) to care for all of our people. The result harms everyone—especially children and families of color—because it unnecessarily starves our nation and communities of resources that can improve our collective well-being.

At Liberation in a Generation, we’re working with partners to unrig this powerful system so it helps us all build collective wealth and generational prosperity, not just an elite few individuals and corporations.

Together with grassroots and national groups, we’re working to:

• Spark curiosity, provide political education, and fuel bold, imaginative possibilities to make tax justice a more resonant issue.
• Advance transformative policy solutions that close corporate loopholes and reforms that reclaim public dollars from private vaults and return them to the hands of the public good.
• Tell clearer stories about the villains and shortfalls of our current tax systems that support the Oppression Economy, and illuminate new narratives of a just tax system.

Tax justice is a cornerstone of the Liberation Economy: it dismantles corporate power, funds the guarantees our communities deserve, and unrigs the rules so people of color can live with dignity and abundance.