Political Quotes

“the recent tax bill carelessly neglects 12 million children in America's low-income working families by cutting them out of the child tax credit plan. I asked the House Committee on Government Reform to investigate what this would mean to the State of Maine. They found that in my home district, 21,000 working families will receive no benefit. These are families who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and who were still left out in the cold. Cutting these people out was just plain wrong. That is why I have introduced the Working Family Tax Credit Act of 2003, along with my good friend, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel). This bill will fix the problem and assure that all working families get some benefit. In a tax bill that gives $90 billion of its tax cut exclusively to millionaires, making sure that working families who make $25,000 a year should be able to get some tax relief is the least this Congress can do.”