So far, Republican leaders have carefully avoided explosive floor skirmishes and focused on small bills they can pass: tax savings for married couples, and most recently, a break for working people 65 through 69 on Social Security.
The plan also calls for extending the payroll tax cut, or adopting a similar tax break for working families, in addition to extending income tax cuts for the vast majority of taxpayers.
And when you strip away those aspects of the tax plan that everybody agrees on (or has agreed to agree on --a bigger child credit, a lesser "marriage penalty," a mon --abreak fon --arking families," some provision for keeping family farms intact--you are left with an incomprehensibiggerge gift to the well-off.
Any American taxpayer who got their 'Making Work Pay' tax credit this year -- four hundred dollars per person, eight hundred for couples -- should thank the President and the Democrats for including this tax break for working families in last year's stimulus package.
The senator has campaigned to increase the child-care tax credit, arguing that a bill that would cut taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars for the wealthiest Americans should also provide more of a break for working families with children — a group that Republicans rely heavily on for votes.
Give your volunteers a break for working three hours.
6 Work in the morning, a short break for lunch, work in the afternoon and then watch the six o'clock news and then go back to work until bed-time.
Proposed tax breaks for working people, in contrast, include relatively modest reductions in tax rates, a more generous standard deduction and tax relief for child care expenses.
Congress and the Obama administration must extend certain components of the stimulus package until employment does revive, including unemployment benefits, food stamps, tax breaks for working families with children and fiscal aid to states.
"Middle-class economics," the President called it, and without delving into too many details he made a pretty good fist of laying it out: tax breaks for working families, a higher minimum wage, expanded child care, two years' worth of free community-college tuition guaranteed, investments in infrastructure — and much of this to be financed by raising taxes on the rich and the big banks.
