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Issue Position: Tax Relief for Our Families

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2014
Issues: Senior Citizens Unemployed and Low-Income Business and Consumers Minors and Children Taxes Housing and Property

Three years ago, the Legislature made drastic changes to our tax code. They reduced the Homestead Property Tax Credit, disqualifying 400,000 families who previously claimed it. They made steep cuts to the Earned Income Tax Credit that many working families depended on. They got rid of the $600 per-child tax deduction and punished seniors with a new tax on retirement income. These changes were made to fund a nearly $2 billion for large corporations with the promise that it would create jobs. Those jobs haven't come, but you're still paying the price. I know that you work hard for your money, and you deserve to keep it. I introduced a proposal to bring back the child deduction, and I have co-sponsored bills to restore the Homestead Property Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit and to get rid of the retirement tax.


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