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Kim Reynolds: Well, there they go again. Let us have a plan where we will sell a loaf of bread that says we will cut middle class…

On the recordSeptember 23, 2004
Well, there they go again. Let us have a plan where we will sell a loaf of bread that says we will cut middle class taxes, but then again, I do not really have a plan on how to do it. I have been in the majority before getting here and serving in the majority since the day I got here, but that majority of the previous 40 years has nicely gotten trenched into the minority because they have a lot of rhetoric but they have not put forth a plan as to how to get the job done. So when you look at this, the Democrats have agreed to extending child tax credit, the 10 percent tax bracket, the marriage penalty relief, however, to accomplish the offsets they want, it means they have to come up with $130 billion of either tax hikes or spending cuts. The Democrats are not prepared to make that tough choice regarding which taxes to increase or which programs to cut. They want to come up and say, I am for cutting the middle class tax, but then again, I do not see this, I do not see that, BBA, debt, but there is never a solution. So the Democrats' plan is a zero sum game here, it provides tax relief with one hand and takes it away with the other.
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Kim Reynolds
Republican · Iowa

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Discussing the Democrats' tax relief proposals and their lack of a concrete plan.

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