Xavier Becerra: “First, when my colleagues talk about the child tax credit, when any working American comes home with that pay stub and…”

“First, when my colleagues talk about the child tax credit, when any working American comes home with that pay stub and that American looks down the list of taxes paid, I do not think the American says, well, that was excise tax, that was payroll tax, that was income tax. She knows she paid taxes. And for those here in this Chamber to say that those taxes paid by that individual making $20,000, $23,000, $28,000 do not count verges on being un-American to me because that is a tax paid to provide for the operation of this government and the programs that we all use. Second, the average cost of a community college education, a public community college education, is about $1,200. Under the Republican tax bill, they will get a credit, but only half of that, $600. In our bill we try to reflect what the President agreed or thought he agreed to do with the Republicans when he negotiated a budget deal, and that was to give them a $1,200 tax credit for education.”