Political Quotes

“I want to join with my colleagues today in expressing great dismay as we are approaching the 2-year anniversary of the massive Republican tax giveaway. Middle-class families and workers have not gotten even remotely close to what they were promised. Instead, President Trump and Republicans gave the big drug companies, the wealthiest Americans, and other special interests an enormous tax cut just in time for the holidays. Merry Christmas to them. But what did he give the majority of families in Michigan? He gave them the equivalent of a beautifully wrapped gift box with nothing in it. There is a word for that, when you make a bunch of promises and fail to keep them. In Michigan, we call that a betrayal. President Trump made some really big promises about the Republican tax giveaway. In his words, it would be ``one of the great Christmas gifts to middle-income people.'' Unfortunately, President Trump turned out to be less like Santa Claus and more like Ebenezer Scrooge. The wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers received an average tax cut 64 times the size of the one given to the middle class. He said--as my other colleagues have referred to--people would get an average of $4,000 more in their income. We in Michigan are still waiting for that $4,000 per person who is working to show up. What happened is, the real number is about $514. And what is even worse is that bonuses for working people have actually gone down 22 percent since the tax giveaway passed.…”