ABOUT CAP THE FUND
The Cap the Fund campaign seeks to do exactly what our name implies: We want to cap the runaway "high-cost" portion of the Universal Service Fund federal phone tax. You can read the Cap the Fund charter statement here.
All individuals and organization are urged to join the Cap the Fund effort. If you are an individual, please take time now to send a message to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress by clicking here. If you represent an organization, please join the ranks of the Cap the Fund Campaign, by sending an email here.
Members of the Cap the Fund campaign currently include:
The Seniors Coalition (http://www.senior.org) is a non-profit, 501(c)(4), non-partisan, education and issue advocacy organization that represents the interests and concerns of America's senior citizens at both the state and federal levels. Its mission is to protect the quality of life and economic well-being that older Americans have earned while supporting common sense solutions to the challenges of the future. The Coalition was founded as a public advocacy group during the fight to repeal the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act in 1989. Since then, it has grown rapidly and expanded our advocacy to include a wide range of other important issues.
Americans for Tax Reform (http://www.atr.org/) is a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose any and all federal and state tax increases. ATR was founded in 1985 by Grover Norquist at the request of President Reagan. ATR serves as a national clearinghouse for the grassroots taxpayers' movement by working with approximately 800 state and county level groups.
The Media Freedom Project (http://www.mediafreedomproject.org/) is a project of Americans for Tax Reform, advocating free market solutions to media, technology and telecommunications policy issues. The members of the Media Freedom Project believe that free markets and consumers should determine the American media and technology landscape, not Washington bureaucrats. The Media Freedom Project advocates an industry responsive to market demands, not one hindered by burdensome government regulations that will stifle innovation, reduce consumer choice and raise prices.
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP Foundation) (http://www.americansforprosperity.org/) are committed to educating citizens about economic policy and mobilizing those citizens as advocates in the public policy process. AFP is an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels. The grassroots members of AFP advocate for public policies that champion the principles of entrepreneurship and fiscal and regulatory restraint.
The Maryland Taxpayers Association (http://www.mdtaxes.org) is a 501(c)(4) non-partisan, not-for-profit, volunteer grass-roots organization which asks Maryland elected officials for their pledge not to raise taxes, acts to make Maryland government more efficient, and organizes and chairs the Maryland Center-Right Coalition and the Maryland Leadership Conference.
Please join our ranks today!