Political Quotes

“this is a big day because we are about to provide tax relief to millions of people in Ohio and around the country--middle-class tax cuts, doubling the standard deduction, doubling the child tax credit, lower rates for people in every bracket. In my home State of Ohio, we have the opportunity to see people who are making $50,000 a year, with two kids, see a 26-percent tax cut. That is important. My colleague just talked about his concern about some of the provisions that are before us. I will say, these have all been filed. That doesn't always happen around here, and it should. These have all been filed, and people can go on rpc.senate.gov. These were made public. Nothing is on this list that hasn't been filed publicly. Just looking at it, the biggest one that my colleague talked about as being something to help rich people is the deduction for property taxes. It is capped at $10,000. There is a deduction for allowing people to deduct their property taxes, which is incredibly important for middle-class families around the country. Some people on the other side want to go much further and provide much larger deductions and make those for State and local taxes. By the way, their proposal would go primarily to upper income people, the proposal they have. That benefit goes primarily to those who are making higher incomes. How is it paid? It is a $10,000 deduction for property tax.…”