For
Immediate Release
December 19, 2017 |
Contact:
Marcus Mrowka
202-531-0689
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Senate Passage of the GOP Tax Plan |
WASHINGTON—Statement of AFT President Randi
Weingarten on the Senate passage of the GOP tax plan:
“Candidate Trump promised a tax plan
with cuts for the middle class and tax increases for the wealthy. Now
President Trump, with the help of House and Senate Republicans, is set to
sign into law a tax bill that hits middle-class families with a tax increase
and delivers 83 percent of the benefits to the top 1 percent. That’s not populism,
that’s plutocracy.
“The American people called
Congress, rallied and made clear that they overwhelmingly oppose this bill.
Study after study showed how this bill would benefit the wealthy at the
expense of the middle class, blow a hole in the deficit, rip healthcare away
from millions of families and starve local public schools and services. Some
CEOs even admitted that corporations wouldn’t use their tax breaks to create
jobs or raise wages. But big donors and the rich demanded a tax break, and
Trump and Republicans in Congress delivered. And as the bill made its way
through Congress, even though we were able to mitigate some of the damage
through our activism, the deal actually got sweeter for those at the top.
“Trump and Republicans in the House
and Senate declared with this tax bill that they stand with their donors and
the wealthy, and they will stop at nothing to create a new Gilded Age. They
declared whose side they’re on, but next fall we the people can take matters
into our own hands and vote for a new Congress that will stand with the
working and middle class.”
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