Albert Russell Wynn: “I want to talk about tax fairness, because that is what this debate is really all about. The Republican tax plan gives…”

“I want to talk about tax fairness, because that is what this debate is really all about. The Republican tax plan gives 60 percent of the benefits in tax cuts to the richest 5 percent of Americans. We think that is wrong. We think working families, working Americans, ought to get the lion's share of the tax benefits. If Members look at the Republican plan, we will find something very interesting. They are willing to give a child tax credit of $500 per child for families making over $100,000 a year, but when we say we have a police officer who makes $25,000 a year, or perhaps a clerk that makes $30,000 a year, they say, no, they get the earned income tax credit so they should not get a child tax credit. That does not make sense. They have tax breaks for dinners, lunches, for travel, corporate welfare for building roads, corporate welfare for attending trade shows overseas; there are lots of tax breaks for the wealthy. That is OK. But now, today, we have an opportunity to have tax fairness for working families. That is what we ought to do.”