Steve Kagen: “Thank you for yielding. You bring up an interesting point about paying taxes. Do you really believe that people who are…”

“Thank you for yielding. You bring up an interesting point about paying taxes. Do you really believe that people who are going down can pay more? It doesn't make any sense at all. Let's take a look at some of the numbers. Twenty-five percent of all workers in the United States earn less than $8.70 per hour. One half of all women working earn less than $8.70 an hour. That's about $18,000 in a year. One-fifth of all children in America are living in poverty, which is the highest among the 17 industrialized nations, and we are the only industrialized nation that doesn't have guaranteed access to health care for everyone. So who is going to end up paying? Well, we had dinner tonight. Somebody has to pay the bill; right? So we can't just get up and turn it over to somebody else. Our kids aren't there. Our grandchildren aren't there. We had to come up with the money to pay for our bills. But if you don't have any money, and I'm not accusing you, but if you don't have the money, I'm going to have to cover you. Now, who has benefited from all these tax cuts? It's the people at the top of the income scale. It should be no surprise who is going to have to pay the bills when they come due. It's not going to be people that don't have any money. They're going to the banks now looking for money.”