In an interview yesterday with WHTC radio, millionaire Congressman Upton lavished praise on the Republican tax scam – a massive giveaway to big corporations that’s raising taxes on the middle-class while increasing healthcare premiums – even as it adds $2 trillion to the federal debt and ushers in an era of trillion-dollar deficits.
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Congressman Upton on WHTC radio:
The economy seems to be really booming right now, and that’s in large part I think because of the tax bill the President signed a couple years ago. More money in everybody’s pockets, virtually.
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By 2027, more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — would pay more in taxes under the tax bill agreed to by House and Senate Republicans, a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center finds. That year, 82.8 percent of the bill’s benefit would go to the top 1 percent.
“The GOP tax scam might seem like a great deal for millionaire Congressman Fred Upton and the special interests donors who he’s cultivated over 30 years in Washington, but it’s a raw deal for middle-class Michiganders,” said DCCC spokesman Mike Gwin. “From higher taxes and health care costs to a ballooning deficit, working families are paying the price of the GOP’s tax giveaway to the rich, even as Congressman Upton and his corporate backers laugh all the way to the bank.”
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