Political Quotes

“This is serious stuff. We believe you are messing up America. You can pay attention for a couple of minutes. Nearly 145 million middle-class families earning under $200,000 will get either tax hikes or a tax cut of less than $100. Eighty-three percent of the middle class will either pay more in taxes or get little but crumbs. Is that what you intended? Is that this great bill that is helping the middle class? Absolutely not. Meanwhile, according to the Tax Policy Center, the top 1 percent of earners in our country will reap 83 percent of the benefits of the tax plan. The top 5 percent--the top 5 percent--will reap 99.2 percent of the benefits. Is that what you intended? That is what you are doing. The very, very wealthy--the highest spectrum--get almost all the benefits. Some bill for the middle class. The raw numbers are a staggering indictment of the Republican tax plan, as they have been throughout the course of this debate. The data reveals what the Republican tax plan truly is--a tax scam that will rob middle-class families to pay for corporate tax breaks and giveaways to the wealthy. In an age of extraordinary income inequality, when the upper echelons of our economy are capturing an ever-greater share of the pie, the Republican tax bill is like pouring gasoline on a raging fire, making income inequality, as bad as it is now, even worse.…”