Roy Blunt: “I am glad to see us making it more possible for people to have a smaller tax burden at the lower levels of people who…”

“I am glad to see us making it more possible for people to have a smaller tax burden at the lower levels of people who pay taxes in the country. I think that is a good thing. I think the 10 percent bracket and making this 10 percent bracket a permanent part of the tax structure is not only what we should do but what the House will vote to do today. Because of this 10 percent bracket, if we did away with the 10 percent bracket, 73 million working Americans would pay higher taxes next year than they paid this year because we would not have the 10 percent bracket available then next year. Seventy-three million Americans would pay higher taxes because of that. Unless the House acts, 22 million lower-income workers would be pushed from the 10 percent bracket into the 15 percent bracket. We do not want to see that happen.”