Bob Menendez: “No wonder 60 percent of the American public said the Democratic tax cutting plan is the plan that they want, because we…”

“No wonder 60 percent of the American public said the Democratic tax cutting plan is the plan that they want, because we address working and tax-paying families in our plan. What we do in that respect is try to provide greater tax relief for lower- and middle-income families, immediate estate tax relief for farms and small family owned businesses, a capital gains tax cut for small businesses and also for being able to sell your home. To the extent that over 1.1 million New Jerseyans, children, get absolutely no relief under this bill and to the extent that there are real families like Anna Gonzalez, who just sent me a fax and said, I am employed as a medical office technologist for the Bayonne Dental Group. I have been working there for a year, making over $20,000 in 1997. I have three kids. I pay for child care. Unfortunately, the Republican child tax credit gives me no benefit at all. That is a real person, a real family struggling to stay off welfare, to be working, to produce for this country. This is the family-friendly Congress supposedly. Yet the Republican tax plan works against working families, tax-paying families, families who we should be preserving in this tax cutting bill. That is why Democrats stand up for tax cutting for working families.”