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| https://levin.house.gov/press-release/levin-statement-house-senate-tax-conference | Levin Statement at House-Senate Tax Conference | 2017-12-13 | 2017 | 2017-12 | Democrat | House | MI | Sander Levin | L000263 | levin.house.gov | legacy | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 13, 2017 Contact: Nick Gwyn, (202) 225-4961 Levin Statement at House-Senate Tax Conference WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI), a House conferee on the pending tax bill, HR 1, today delivered the following comments during a House-Senate conference on the legislation. Watch here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4699032/sander-levin-tax-conference (Remarks as prepared) “Mr. Chairman, the headlines say the Republicans have a deal on a tax bill, even as we are here having a conference committee on the two bills passed by the two houses. This is indeed a mockery. The horse is out of the barn, but it’s limping – limping badly. Of all the fake claims we have heard over the last few months, the greatest is that the Republican tax bills are focused on helping the middle class. The truth is that millions of middle-income Americans would be forced to pay higher taxes under these bills. In 2019, nearly 13 million Americans with incomes below $200,000 a year would pay HIGHER taxes under both the House and Senate bills. By 2027, over 32 million would pay higher taxes under the House bill, and nearly 38 million under the Senate bill. These higher taxes comes from Republican proposals to limit the state and local tax deduction and from other provisions. The Republican claim that their bills are aimed at helping the middle class truly deserves Four Pinocchios. It’s so bad that I hope those who check the facts will add a fifth Pinocchio. The second outrage is the myth that tax cuts for the top pay for themselves and that the $2.3 Trillion in new debt that would be amassed under the GOP tax changes will be erased by economic growth. In reality, the middle class will get stuck with the bill for this debt, either through a future deficit tax, or through cuts to programs they depend on, such as Medicare. Meanwhile, those earning over $1 million a year will get an average tax cut of over $73,000 in 2019 under Republican proposals. It may be even worse given reported efforts by Republicans to lower the top tax rate. This is truly class warfare – Republican warfare against the middle class and all who aspire to it. You are working in desperation, not in deliberation, and that will create new tax loopholes that will plague us for years. And slapdash proposals supposedly designed to reduce the offshoring of American companies and jobs may actually make the problem worse. I was going to say we need to hit the pause button before it’s too late, but apparently it is too late since the majority has made a mockery out of this conference.” ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |