📢No Taxpayer Dollars for Big Oil in Venezuela

Freedom Over Fascism Means Putting People First

Friends, our tax dollars should serve the common good — protecting families, caring for veterans, seniors, children, and ensuring dignity for everyone who calls this country home. When that promise is broken, democracy itself is weakened.

Today, taxpayer dollars are being funneled to Big Oil and corporate interests while life-saving programs are cut. This isn’t fiscal responsibility. It’s a moral failure.

The federal government continues to provide tens of billions in subsidies and tax breaks to fossil fuel corporations — some of the most profitable companies on Earth — while politicians push budgets that slash Affordable Care Act subsidies, cut Medicaid and Medicare, weaken Social Security, reduce SNAP and food assistance, shrink veterans’ programs, and gut affordable housing. And now there’s talk of handing even more subsidies and tax breaks to Big Oil to rebuild oil drilling infrastructure in Venezuela, even as health care, food assistance, and housing are stripped from families here at home.

These choices have real consequences. When health care is taken away, people die. When food assistance is cut, children go hungry. When housing programs are dismantled, homelessness rises. When seniors lose support, fear replaces dignity. When veterans are denied care, our nation breaks its word.

This is not accidental. It is a deliberate transfer of wealth and power away from working families and toward corporations and political elites.

Freedom over fascism means rejecting a system where public money props up private greed while everyday people are told to accept less. Authoritarianism thrives when people are forced into desperation — when healthcare, housing, and food become privileges instead of rights.

Progress means investing in people, not polluters. Every dollar handed to Big Oil is a dollar stolen from families who need affordable healthcare, from seniors relying on Social Security, from veterans seeking stability, and from children who deserve safe homes and full plates.

Cutting Affordable Care Act subsidies while protecting oil profits is cruelty. Slashing Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and housing assistance while expanding corporate giveaways is abandonment.

Power to the people means our budget should reflect our values. Public money should keep people healthy, housed, and fed; support veterans and seniors with dignity; strengthen Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP; invest in affordable housing, clean energy, education, and democracy — and ensure no one is sacrificed for profit.

America does not need a king or corporate rule. It needs accountability, compassion, and courage.

Freedom over fascism means choosing people over profits.Progress means investing in care, not corporate greed.Power to the people means no taxpayer dollars for Big Oil — ever.