{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-young-opposes-democrats-latest-tax-and-spend-plan/", "VIDEO: Young Opposes Democrats\u2019 Latest Tax-and-Spend Plan", "2022-08-03", "2022", "2022-08", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) joined his Republican colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee for a press conference on Democrats\u2019 new Build Back Bad plan to raise taxes and increase spending during record-high inflation.\n\n\u201cThe median household income in the state of Indiana is $58,000. Under this plan, families in that income range in my state will see their taxes increase by $2 billion next year alone. I\u2019m here for those families. I\u2019m speaking on behalf of those families. They\u2019re upset. They find this absolutely absurd. We are the most manufacturing intensive state in the country. As we\u2019ve already heard this legislation will slam our manufacturers. This is an anti-Indiana bill,\u201d said Senator Young.\n\nTo watch the Senator Young\u2019s full remarks, click here.\n\nThe remarks as delivered:\n\nHere we go again.\n\nI guess the national Democratic Party has given up on the industrial Midwest, the heartland. They\u2019ve just given up.\n\nNow, it was a year ago next week that Democrats attempted to push through a $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend boondoggle.\n\nWe won the argument and we won the day. But here we are making the same arguments. My hope is that in the end we will be victorious.\n\nI don\u2019t believe the Democrats are doing this for political reasons, because I tell you, this is really bad politics back where I live.\n\nWe have the worst inflation certainly in memory. And they\u2019re trying to revive this massive tax-and-spending initiative.\n\nSo, listen, let\u2019s look at the latest iteration of that legislation, which they have in a nod to George Orwell dubbed the Inflation Protection, Inflation Control, whatever it is act \u2013 does nothing of the sort.\n\nThis bill would raise taxes on nearly every income bracket in America. It would increase taxes on those Americans who make less than $10,000 a year. I represent a lot of those Americans.\n\nNow, the Democrats have for generations now styled themselves as defenders of the working man, guardians, people of modest means. This is so ill-advised. This is frankly, this is punitive to the least among us in this country.\n\nAnd it\u2019s more than that.\n\nThe median household income in the state of Indiana is $58,000. Under this plan, families in that income range in my state will see their taxes increase by $2 billion next year alone.\n\nI\u2019m here for those families. I\u2019m speaking on behalf of those families. They\u2019re upset. They find this absolutely absurd.\n\nWe are the most manufacturing intensive state in the country. As we\u2019ve already heard this legislation will slam our manufacturers.\n\nThis is an anti-Indiana bill. Anti-Indiana.\n\nWe just passed a really important piece of competitiveness legislation to ensure that we can outgrow, out-innovate, and outcompete the Chinese Communist Party. We do that with one hand and on the other hand, we have a Democrat-led Senate, House, and White House advancing an initiative that will, in fairly short order, undermine our national competitiveness.\n\nI offered an amendment to last year\u2019s [budget resolution] \u2013 the Not One Penny in Taxes Raised Amendment. The objective here was to ensure that we got everyone on record and ensure that everyone was going to register formally, in the light of day, their views about whether or not we should increase taxes on Americans \u2013 those who make $400,000 or less per year.\n\nPresident Biden and [Vice President] Kamala Harris, over the course of the campaign on 60 different occasions, promised there would be no increase in tax burden for Americans who make $400,000 a year or less.\n\nWell, folks, Democrats are trying to ram through legislation this week that puts a $16.7 billion tax burden on that same cohort of Americans.\n\nSo, here we are again. We will continue to argue against, we will fight against, this ill-advised public policy. 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