Get America Working advocates for sustainable economic growth and prosperity through a transformative shift in tax policy – sending a clear price signal toward what we value the most: people and sustainable economic growth.

Get America Working proposes a transition away from taxing valuable labor and work, which should be encouraged, toward discouraging environmental inefficiencies and waste. This strategic realignment stimulates job creation, social security and promotes sustainable practices, thereby propelling economic vitality and ecological resilience.

Get America Working can help ensure all workers benefit from more opportunities, a faster- growing economy, and true sustainability.

Sara Horowitz
Founder of Freelancers Union and Founder and CEO of Trupo
Sarah

A potential windfall of human and social capital already exists in the accumulated population of chronically under- and unemployed groups..., including older people, younger people, individuals of color, people with disabilities, and immigrants. Get America Working is at work transforming this vast...

Marc Freedman
Founder/CEO, Encore.org and author, How to Live Forever
Marc

Get America Working estimated that [tax shifting] could generate up to 45 million full-time equivalent jobs…. Here’s a way for Washington to open the door: Eliminate the payroll tax, and replace the revenue with non-labor taxes.

Eugene Ludwig
Former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, Founder and CEO of Promontory Financial Group, writing in Newsweek
Eugene

“[Payroll tax shifting is] the one reform which would generate much faster job growth and ease the tax burden on employees and employers alike [is to] eliminate the payroll tax and replace it with non-labor taxes.

Former US Treasury Secretary and US Senator Bill Brock
Al From, founder, Democratic Leadership Council, writing in a joint column in The Hill
Bill

The revenue from a carbon tax could be used to offset a portion of the Social Security payroll tax, providing a pro-growth measure that reduces the cost of labor to employers and increases the returns for employees…. A revenue-neutral carbon tax where the proceeds are used to reduce the payroll tax...

Jason Ficthner
Senior Lecturer at Johns Hopkins School of International Studies, former senior economist for the Social Security Administration and for Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, writing in a report for the Alliance for Market Solutions
Jason Ficthner

Get America Working addresses the millions [of] part-timers and those discouraged and dropped from the official US unemployment count and the shrinking labor force participation rate hovering in the 60% range. This non-partisan group points out how the official…unemployment figure masks the truth...

Hazel Henderson
internationally syndicated columnist and author, founder of Ethical Markets Media, writing in CSRWire
Hazel

The payroll tax is, after all, a tax on work. Cutting it would encourage more people to join the labor force; it would also motivate those who are already working to increase the number of hours they work. Cut the tax, and the supply of labor will increase.

James C. Capretta
Milton Friedman Chair, American Enterprise Institute
James

 

 

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