Van Hollen: Trump Will ‘Increase Taxes’ for Folks in the Middle to Finance Tax Breaks for the Top 1%

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VAN HOLLEN: “The President is running around the country telling people that this is going to reduce the tax burden on the middle class. Uh-huh, that’s not the case. You take away that deduction along with some of the other deductions they take away and collect a personal exemption, and you will increase taxes on tens of millions of folks in the middle in order to finance tax breaks for the folks at the very, very top, the top 1 percent, millionaires and billionaires. So we’re all in, if we’re talking about simplifying the tax code and helping folks in the middle. We’re not in if we’re talking about increasing taxes on folks in the middle to finance tax breaks for millionaires.”