Sam Gejdenson: “the debate here is rather simple. The question is, as the elected representatives of the people of this country, is it…”

“the debate here is rather simple. The question is, as the elected representatives of the people of this country, is it our responsibility to make it easier for those who are walking into the showrooms where they sell Mercedes or people who are trying to buy a Ford Escort and send their kids to school? If we listen to our friends in the majority party, the Republicans, they believe that we were sent here to cut taxes for the top 1 percent by tens of thousands of dollars. The estimates are in news reports that the top 1 percent will get a $27,000 tax cut while the bottom 20 percent will actually lose money on the proposal that came out of the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Speaker, this country is the most productive, wealthiest country in the world because we have provided opportunity at all levels of our economy, not just continuously shifting the burden to the poorest working people in America. Tax cuts and making it easier for middle-class and working people are what this Congress ought to be about.”