Dan Kildee: “Yesterday, on the floor of this House and, I guess, again today, there will be a vote on this massive tax cut targeted…”

“Yesterday, on the floor of this House and, I guess, again today, there will be a vote on this massive tax cut targeted to people at the very top, targeting big cuts for corporations. Like many Members on this side of the aisle, I welcome the opportunity to do comprehensive, real tax reform. And for a long time, the discussion in this body and around the country was about the need to lower the rates and broaden the base and eliminate some of those loopholes that allow some corporations to get away with paying literally no taxes at all. But instead of doing that, what we saw was a massive shift of the responsibility to fund the government away from people at the top to people who work hard every day. There are many examples of how we could have done this better. There was a lot of discussion on the Senate side about the child tax credit. But why did we end up with a child tax credit that rewards a minimum wage family with about $75 a year, when somebody making $400,000 would get $4,000? I mean, is the life of a child of a family making a half a million dollars worth that much more? This is the wrong direction. This is the wrong bill. We should reject it. ____________________”