The McCain camp touts this tax cut, with some justification, as a middle-class tax cut that is a step towards taxing consumption rather than income.
And what is abundantly clear to everyone in this town is that Republicans will block a permanent tax cut for the middle class unless they also get a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, regardless of the cost or impact on the deficit.
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While that was not a pro-growth tax cut, it still was a tax cut for the middle class.
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The fact of the matter is -- and economists will tell you this -- that a tax cut for middle-class Americans has far greater positive economic impact than a tax cut to people in the top 2 percent.
Now, what we have seen from Republicans in Congress is the promulgation of this idea that passing a tax cut for middle-class Americans is somehow a favor they would be doing for the President of the United States.
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We had a two-year tax cut for Make Work Pay for -- 95 percent of working Americans got a tax cut, middle-class families, small business people.
One thing that the House could do in its few days here in Washington before it goes off again on recess is follow the Senate's lead and pass a tax cut -- an extension of a tax cut or tax cuts -- for the middle class, 98 percent of the American people.
One is it makes no sense to pass into law a payroll tax cut for working and middle-class Americans and have it paid for in a way that hurts working and middle-class Americans.
Obama says he has cut taxes for middle class by a bit over 3 grand.
Another was to give the middle class a tax cut to help it weather this terrible recession.
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Obama brushed off the charge Sunday, saying he just wants to give the middle class a tax cut.
Clinton also shelved his campaign commitment to deliver a middle class tax cut upon learning the size of the deficit.
And a tax cut for the middle class was, of course, at the heart of Obama's economic proposal says Mickey Levy, chief economist at Bank of America, New York.
Just past midnight, the Senate passed, by a 52-47 vote, the GOP budget bill that Republicans say will balance the budget by 2002, salvage the Medicare program, return power to the states, and hand the middle class a tax cut.
For every one wealthy estate facing a less-generous estate tax exemption, thousands of middle-class families will receive a tax cut that will help them save, invest, and one day own an estate of their own.
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Clinton, like Obama, spent much of his campaign touting a middle-class tax cut.
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Many congressional Democrats decried the idea as a cut in benefits for the middle class, implying that benefit cuts were off the table as part of pension reform.
He is committed to extending, and believes we should make permanent, tax cuts for 98 percent of taxpaying Americans -- a middle-class tax cut for Americans who need it.
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So it is because of the leadership of the President, because of the agreement of Senate Democrats and the consistency of our message that we are where we are and we believe we will get a payroll tax cut for middle-class Americans.
Since that time, we've passed a Recovery Act that's put a middle-class tax cut into people's pockets, that has invested in infrastructure all across this country and put people back to work, and something that isn't noted often enough, has helped stabilize state budgets at a time in which we could have seen hundreds of thousands of layoffs in teachers and police officers and firefighters.
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He also co-sponsored a bill designed to cut down on malpractice litigation in 2005, and voted for the Class Action Fairness Act, a law that made it harder for trial lawyers to file some of their most lucrative cases.
And the middle class will enjoy a significant tax cut in the payroll tax portions of this bill.
Certainly the field is open for some immediate form of the president-elect's middle-class tax cut to become part of a stimulus package.
Democrats accuse Republicans of shortchanging the middle class in favor of a big cut in capital gains taxes, from 28 percent to 20 percent.
If Republicans support giving middle-class and working Americans a tax cut next year, they should move a payroll tax cut bill that does that.
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