Tammy Baldwin: “budgets are about priorities and America's budget ought to reflect America's priorities. Once again, Republicans have…”

“budgets are about priorities and America's budget ought to reflect America's priorities. Once again, Republicans have presented a budget that makes spending billions of dollars on tax cuts for the wealthy a higher priority than confronting the issues my constituents worry about, such as fixing our broken health care system and putting America back to work, educating our children, and keeping our promises to our seniors and veterans. In short, people who make over a million dollars a year come first, while millions of hard-working Americans foot the bill. Those who need it the very least get the most, and those who need the help the most get the very least. Perhaps some of you have heard of a popular TV reality show called ``The Simple Life.'' It introduces two young wealthy heiresses onto an Arkansas farm where they are exposed to hard work and a set of struggles they have not witnessed firsthand before. Under this budget resolution, hotel heiress Paris Hilton would make out big. Given her family's $300 million fortune and her earnings from filming the show, she belongs to an elite group of Americans who make over $1 million per year. She would save over $150,000 in taxes per year under the policies that are embraced in this Republican budget resolution.”