Political Quotes

“a budget is a vision of the future, and it clearly appears the two sides have very different visions as to what our country should be and the direction in which we move. At a time of unprecedented and grotesque income and wealth inequality, where 99 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent, my Republican colleagues say we need to give a massive tax break to the 5,000 wealthiest families in America--the top two-tenths of 1 percent--a $269 billion tax break over a 10-year period. That is not what the American people believe. What they believe is that at a time when the rich and large corporations are doing phenomenally well, when we have a large deficit, when we have massive unmet needs in this country, that maybe, just maybe it is time to ask the wealthy and large corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes, not give them more tax breaks. That is exactly what this Republican budget does. At a time when the United States is the only major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people and when 35 million Americans today have no health insurance and even more are underinsured, with large copayments and high premiums, the Republican budget unbelievably--unbelievably--simply throws 27 million Americans off of health insurance. What happens to them? What happens when the Affordable Care Act is ended--which is what their budget does--and 16 million people lose their health insurance?…”