For
Immediate Release
December 2, 2017
Contact:
Marcus Mrowka 202/531-0689 mmrowka@aft.or |
Senate Republican Tax Bill Rewards Wealthy Donors and Corporations While Sticking It to the Middle Class |
WASHINGTON—Statement of AFT President Randi
Weingarten following the vote on the Senate Republican tax bill:
“President
Trump and Senate Republicans threw the middle class under the bus today. They
are handing huge tax breaks to their wealthy donors and corporations, at a
time of record corporate profits and when the Dow has never been higher,
while sticking it to the middle class and working folks, whose wages have
been stagnant for decades and who crave basic economic security for their
families. Trump and the Republicans are going after public education and
services at a time when at least 29 states are still spending less on public
schools than they did before the great recession. The old Republican cries
against deficits, deficits, deficits are gone; passage of this bill makes it
clear Republicans now only care about tax breaks for the rich. And nobody
should be surprised if they use the massive deficits created by this bill to
justify cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
“That’s why
Republican senators rammed this bill through as fast as they could without
its final text published until minutes before the vote, without hearings and
without real debate. They know the more Americans know about this bill, the
more unpopular it will be. That’s because no amount of child care credits or
other window dressing can disguise this massive giveaway to the wealthy and
corporations, paid for by increasing the deficit and tearing down the
building blocks of the American dream by raising healthcare costs; starving
public schools and services of resources; and raising taxes on teachers,
nurses, firefighters, students and those who just want a fair shot at a
middle-class life.
“The
winners and losers are clear and the lines are drawn. President Trump and
Senate Republicans have shut ‘we the people’ out of our government and broken
every populist promise they made to working folks, in order to serve the
interests of donors and big corporations.”
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