GOP ignores report showing Biden plan would cut taxes for the middle class

Sep 15, 2021 View Original Article
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : The Build Back Better plan would use this new revenue to pay for climate change and clean energy infrastructure as well as child care, health care, paid family leave, and free community college and preschool.
52% : That claim is flatly contradicted by the score given by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, which, according to its website, "operates with an experienced professional staff of Ph.
48% : It also shows that the investment bill would raise taxes on the people at the very top: Those making $1 million or more would see an estimated tax increase of 10.6%.
42% : That legislation drastically reduced taxes on the very wealthy and on corporations, while actually raising taxes on 10 million American families.
41% : The document warned that "Democrats will raise taxes on the middle class, small businesses, reversing benefits of TCJA," the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Brady authored.
40% : A nonpartisan congressional analysis found the Build Back Better plan would cut taxes for Americans making under $200,000.
37% : A new analysis from Congress' nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released Tuesday found that President Joe Biden's proposed Build Back Better investment plan would cut taxes for middle-class Americans.
25% : Republicans have been dishonestly claiming for months that Biden's proposals to raise income taxes of those earning more than $400,000 annually and on big businesses would somehow "destroy the middle class."
19% : The Texas Republican accused Biden of breaking his "pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class," arguing that increased corporate tax burdens would eventually be "borne by lower- and middle-income taxpayers.

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