Joe Crowley: “during the debate on the tax bill, the Republicans continually stated how the Nation's economic policy should alleviate…”

“during the debate on the tax bill, the Republicans continually stated how the Nation's economic policy should alleviate taxes on the rich as they are the ones doing the so-called creating of wealth, as opposed to the middle-class people actually doing the labor in our Nation's plants, ports, factories, warehouses, and offices. When Democrats pointed out that they were, in fact, providing a tax cut to the richest and wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, something that my Republican colleagues never denied, the Republicans accused Democrats of playing class warfare. But class warfare is pitting people against each other, and that is what the Republican tax bill has done. Nothing highlights class warfare of the Republicans against middle-class people more than the midnight actions of the Republicans and President Bush when they stripped out many of the child care tax credit provisions for hard-working poor families. I believe the cutting of the child tax credit for the poorest in this country is unconscionable.”