John Kerry Pledges to Support Middle Class Families, Not Raise Their Taxes

[Nicholas_J]

Presidential candidate John Kerry today visited the Downtown Baltimore Children’s Center to talk about his support for the middle-class tax cuts like the child tax credit that are right for hardworking families and right for America. Today, John Kerry pledged to help families with children who are struggling to make ends meet, by fully protecting expansions of the child tax credit and the child care credit. Kerry also underscored his commitment to expanding access to health care coverage to all children and improving early childhood education.

John Kerry said, “If I am President, I will rollback the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans so we can invest in education, health care, and the skills of our workers. But I want to give the middle class a tax cut, not a tax increase. Too many middle class people are getting pummeled everywhere they turn – more bills to pay, a higher cost of living. And for all of this President’s talk about tax cuts, middle class families have seen their share of the tax burden go up, not down. Some in my party want to balance the budget on the backs of the middle class. This would hurt those who most deserve our help. After they’ve had to deal with George Bush, the last thing middle class people deserve is a President making it even harder for them to make ends meet. I’m for a tax cut for the middle class.”

http://www.johnkerry.com/news/releases/pr_2003_0909b.html

Notice than nice little comparison about balancing the budget on the backs of the middle class:

“I’ve become convinced that we have a philosophical difference between the governor, the Republican House and this Senate,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Shumlin, D-Windham.

“The governor and the Republican House want to balance this budget on the backs of our most vulnerable Vermonters. The Senate wants to balance this budget on the backs of the pharmaceutical companies who are charging too much for drugs.”

http://timesargus.nybor.com/Legislature/Story/46513.html

Kerry will start the electorate looking at Deans tax record soon.