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‘Tax Breaks for the Wealthiest While Undermining Moms, Families, Our Economy’: MomsRising Leader Urges Congress to Reject Trump/Ryan Tax Plan

September 27, 2017

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families
“At a time when our country is experiencing unprecedented income inequality, with the rich getting richer and working families struggling to put food on the table and afford child care and college, the Trump administration and House and Senate Republican leaders today offered a plan that provides tax breaks for the wealthiest while undermining moms, families and the economy. This plan would exacerbate inequities and leave the government without the resources it needs for basic services that fuel our economy and lift millions.
 
“Moms are experts in sniffing out trickery, and we can tell you that the Trump/Ryan Tax Plan is like a green bean hidden in a kid’s napkin. The moms of America won’t be fooled. This plan would line the pockets of the super wealthy, allow major corporations to take further advantage of tax loopholes and hide their profits offshore, while creating a windfall for CEOs without asking them to pay their fair share. It must be rejected. There is nothing in it for America’s working families. We will end up having the pay for this unfair tax plan through massive budget cuts to vital health care, education and nutrition programs -- as well as reductions in disaster assistance, Medicare and infrastructure. This plan would hurt our families and our economy!
 
“If the Trump administration spent half as much time working to improve life for moms, low-wage workers, single parent families, people living in poverty, those with disabilities, seniors and communities of color, the country would be better off and the President’s approval ratings would not be at historic lows. True tax reform would put families front and center and ask wealthy corporations, millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. Any tax plan the helps struggling families must include working family tax credits that strengthen and improve programs like the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit), Child Tax Credit (CTC), and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC). We must prioritize lifting up low- and moderate-income families, first and foremost.
 
“This tax plan is more of the same from an administration that’s hallmark is working to rob from the poor and the middle class to make life even easier for the very rich. Just as Congress rejected disastrous health care repeal bills, it must reject any tax plan that would give massive tax cuts to millionaires, billionaires and wealthy corporations while weakening our economy and forcing major cuts to the programs that boost our families the most.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.