‘tax reform’

Today Rep. Barbara Comstock voted for Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan to hike taxes on middle class families and homeowners in Northern Virginia while giving a huge break to the wealthiest and big corporations. Because 51% of Comstock’s constituents depend on the State and Local Tax deduction to reduce their federal tax burden – one of […]

Speaker Paul Ryan isn’t doing Rep. Barbara Comstock any favors. Just a week after Virginia Democrats beat establishment Republicans up and down the ballot in Northern Virginia, Ryan is holding a nationally televised town hall in Comstock’s district to sell his deeply unpopular GOP tax scam that will hike taxes on middle class families and […]

Today, during an editorial board interview with Crain’s Chicago that was broadcast over Facebook Live, Rep. Peter Roskam refused to denounce Republican Senate Candidate Roy Moore, who last week was revealed to have likely had sexual relationships with multiple minors. Members of the editorial board asked Roskam one simple question several times, asking about whether […]

Today, Rep. Peter Roskam and his Republican colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee advanced their tax scam to the House floor on a strictly party line vote. Roskam is one of the chief authors of the plan, which eliminates middle class tax breaks that provide a significant benefit to Chicagoland families and homeowners while […]

Rep. Peter Roskam was supposed to introduce his big corporate tax cut bill today, but the grand reveal was delayed because Roskam and Washington Republicans are scrambling to sell their harmful middle class double tax. Roskam’s tax plan calls for eliminating or severely weakening the State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction, which would allow Chicagoland […]

Rep. Peter Roskam will tell you all about the tax plan he wrote to give breaks to big corporations, just as long as you don’t ask him about how the Middle Class Double Tax is going to hammer homeowners and families in his own district. Just months after the Illinois legislature voted to increase income […]

Rep. Dave Brat has gone full Washington by making a deal with Speaker Paul Ryan to blow up the deficit by giving tax cuts to big corporations. Brat’s first campaign for Congress focused on reducing the debt and deficit, yet he agreed to pass a budget that will raise the deficit by $1.5 trillion in […]

Weeks after releasing his tax plan that benefits corporations, the wealthiest Americans, and his special interest donors, Rep. Peter Roskam still has no defense for how it will hike taxes on working families in his district. In an interview with WGN, Roskam uses D.C. talking points to dodge a question about whether Chicagoland families will […]