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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

As a result of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, Americans earning under $100,000 received an average tax cut of 16 percent.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

In the years that followed enactment of the Trump tax cuts we saw lower-income earners have a huge reduction in their taxes.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

I expect my colleagues will use the same talking points about that bill being all about tax breaks for the wealthy.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

The truth is the Congressional Budget Office found that the 2017 tax law increased the share of taxes paid by the top one percent of households.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

I think that we are in a much stronger place today because of the priorities of productivity in 2017.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

I love America. I think America is the place where there is more opportunity than anywhere else in the world.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

We don't do that by paying people to not work. That has no return on investment there.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

When I think about making America the best place in the world to do business and to work, that is what I want us to be.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

I think it is interesting that people come in with their concerns about tax fairness, and what is going to happen, and how we are going to meet the deficit that is growing, and we are not focusing on collecting taxes that are already due…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

A rising tide lifts all boats unless you shoot holes in the bottom of the boat.

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Cori Bush
@coribush· Democratic · MO· Apr 10, 2024

I have a bill called the Protecting Access to Medication Abortion Act.

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Cori Bush
@coribush· Democratic · MO· Apr 10, 2024

This has proven that the in-person dispensing requirement was never actually medically necessary.

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Cori Bush
@coribush· Democratic · MO· Apr 10, 2024

Thank you for the work that the FDA has done to eliminate cumbersome restrictions on mifepristone.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

If you eliminate the step up in basis, you are going to pay a 20 percent tax on the gain of anything you ever own in your life.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, we have had zero corporate inversions.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

President Biden's so-called Inflation Reduction Act forced taxpayers to subsidize big banks and corporations.

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Eric Schmitt
@ericschmitt· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

I submit the following notice in writing: In accordance with Rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend the following portion of paragraph 1 of Rule XXII: ``to lay…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Apr 10, 2024

So in regards to that, when you talk about real wages, real wages increased by more than 5 percent after passage of this.

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