Denying Dubya's Bribe: The Push to Reject the Tax Rebate

By Alicia Rebensdorf, AlterNet. Posted July 3, 2001.

Those of you who voted against George W. and his tax cut can now put your money where your mouths is -- donate the $300 you'll soon get to a group hit by federal budget cuts.

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Thanks to the Bush/Cheney tax cut, many Americans will soon be discovering government gifts in their mailboxes. Within the next month or so, $300 rebate checks ($600 for married couples) will be mailed to three fourths of the tax-paying public.

You could do much with this money. Buy a month of healthcare for your family. Fill a couple SUVs with gas. Pay H&R Block to do your taxes. Or, for those of you who voted against George W. and his fiscal policies, you can put your money where your mouth is -- donate your $300 to an organization suffering from Dubya's budget cuts.


	Double Your Tax Cut Donation Think giving your tax rebate back to the nonprofit community is a good idea? The good folks over at Working Assets do. So much so that they'll double any tax rebate donation you make through their GiveForChange.com site -- turning your $300 gift into $600 -- from now until November. "Thousands of citizens see the tax-cut check for what it is -- a shameless political ploy," said Michael Kieschnick, president of Working Assets. "We offer the public a vehicle to turn Bush's irresponsible tax cut into positive action." Working Assets has set aside $1 million for matching funds, which citizens can donate to one of the 400 nonprofits listed on GiveForChange.com. Groups listed range from large NGOs (ACLU, Greenpeace) to local community agencies (especially in Northern California). By the way, AlterNet's parent organization, the Independent Media Institute, is on the GiveForChange list. Since we don't rely on ads or subscriptions, donations from you readers mean a lot to our bottom line -- and we can stretch $600 pretty far. For more information, click here.

A growing movement is pledging to reject the $300 bribes, eh, rebates, as a symbol of political protest and a means towards social justice. The nonprofit group United for a Fair Economy (UFE) is spearheading one such mobilization. On their new RejectTheRebate.com,, UFE has developed a petition and pledge campaign to build a fairer tax system and promote economic justice. In the first five days after they launched, over four hundred people pledged their tax rebates to social justice causes, totalling more than $120,000.

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