The Democrats have been handed a gift and a month's worth of free advertising by Orrin Hatch, a Republican Senator from Utah. He claimed that 51% of households pay no income tax and that isn't fair (a similar claim by Eric Cantor as fact-checked and found to be true). So this is an interesting claim Hatch is making. Republicans have said they don't wait to raise taxes on anyone, yet Hatch complains here about people paying NO income tax. To be consistent he would've been wiser to celebrate this, not say it's not fair.
However, the incomes of people who don't pay any income tax are not in the upper tiers of society when it comes to income anyway. Hatch is saying he does not want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets and oil companies, yet he thinks it is OK to raise taxes on the poorest members of society, or eliminate loopholes that would hurt them the most. Seems like Republicans again are acting like the Guarantors of Poverty-GOP.
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