Emanuel Cleaver: “If the gentlewoman will yield. First of all, I agree with your numbers. The job gain during this administration from…”

“If the gentlewoman will yield. First of all, I agree with your numbers. The job gain during this administration from 2003 to the present does bring the total jobs to 5.4 million. My disagreement with the numbers is that the numbers do not include 2.7 million jobs lost prior to the growth period. And so if you subtract the 2.7 million jobs that were lost, you actually will have a 2.7 million jobs increase instead of 5.4 million. And I have my own chart. And I do not quarrel with your numbers. But I have taken the numbers in a different direction. In 2005 dollars, income in 2005 dollars, this chart reflects the tax savings for Americans. And if an individual earned between $10,000 and $20,000 annually, their tax savings will be $2. $20,000 to $30,000, $9. $16 if you are between $30,000 and $40,000. If you earned $75,000 to $100,000 your tax savings is $403. And it goes on up, $500,000 to a million your tax would be $4,499. And the point I want to make here is that the people who earn the most get a huge tax cut, and people who do not earn much at all end up at the bottom in terms of the tax cuts. And so all of America cannot celebrate the tax cuts because all Americans are not getting a tax cut that will have any kind of impact in their day-to-day lives.”