PENNSYLVANIA – Yesterday Senate Republicans released their plan to “raise taxes on as much as half the country,” including seniors and working families.
This Republican agenda is completely out of step with Pennsylvania voters, and is sure to become a defining issue in the 2022 midterms. The DSCC is already moving forward with radio ads to make sure voters across the country know what Republicans are planning if they retake majorities.
To get more context on Senate Republicans’ dangerous agenda, see below for the DSCC’s fact sheet:
- Senate Republicans will “raise taxes on as much as half of the country.” [Washington Post, 2/22/22]
- Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review): Might also have been good to put out an agenda that did not include raising taxes on more than a hundred million Americans.
- Bill Kristol (The Bulwark): The NRSC head is promising to raise income taxes on tens of millions of Americans, including retirees.
- Sam Stein (POLITICO): Tucked in Rick Scott’s 11 pt GOP plan is a call for a tax hike, however small, on the lowest incomed Americans.
- Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review): Might also have been good to put out an agenda that did not include raising taxes on more than a hundred million Americans.
- Senate Republicans will raise taxes on millions of “retirees who can’t earn an income because they are no longer in the work force.” [MSNBC, 2/22/22]
- Senate Republicans’ plan could raise taxes on roughly half of the more than 60 million Social Security beneficiaries. [Social Security Administration, February 2015]
- Senate Republicans’ would make it easier for “rich people to cheat on their taxes.” [Washington Post, 2/22/22]
- Senate Republicans’ plan “offers nothing on health care, child care, ideas on how to curb inflation.” [MSNBC, 2/22/22]
- Washington Post (Opinion): Let’s start with what is not in there: any proposal to bring down inflation (which Republicans have been hollering about for months); to increase wages or reduce income inequality; to prepare workers for the 21st-century economy…and to increase school performance on basic subjects.
- Washington Post (Opinion): Let’s start with what is not in there: any proposal to bring down inflation (which Republicans have been hollering about for months); to increase wages or reduce income inequality; to prepare workers for the 21st-century economy…and to increase school performance on basic subjects.
- When they were in charge, Senate Republicans gave tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and corporations that ship jobs overseas “while overlooking working families”. [Economic Policy Institute, 12/17/19; New York Times, 1/8/18]
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