Former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold is throwing his full support, and his grassroots mailing list, behind President Obama's effort to get the Super Congress focused on reforming the tax structure.
"I just want to say how pleased I am that the President is taking a strong stand with this Buffett rule," Feingold said in a Wednesday interview. "What excites me even more, is it's the only fiscally responsible approach."Feingold's new advocacy group Progressives United will press the joint Super Committee to adopt the Buffett rule as part of a broader deficit reduction plan. In an email to supporters, Feingold will make it explicit. "[T]he influence of big corporations and the super rich is strong in Congress, and several senators -- including Democratic ones -- are already opposing this crucial effort," the solicitation reads. "Tell the super committee how important it is to make millionaires pay their fair share."[...]
"If those on the right continue to insist that the wealthy don't have to contribute at all, I think the President will have to take it to the people," he said. "I would prefer that they compromise and that we get back on the right track..but i do think that if they're going to take a hard line that we may have [to make this] the real central issue of the campaign."
In addition to this campaign to urge the Super Congress to make taxes more fair, Feingold's organization Progressives United has created a campaign to petition the Super Congress Democrats to follow the principles of tax fairness, no cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits, and no ""giveaways to corporate interests."
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