Tax Relief for Working Families and Employers

 • Opposes a value-added tax (VAT) as a means of reducing the deficit.

• Throughout his career, Tom has supported policies to lower the tax burden for all Americans. 

• Supports a tax policy that removes barriers to investment, such as lower rates for capital gains and dividend income, and that promotes economic growth and creation of jobs.

• Supports extension of 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, including lower tax rates for lower income earners, repeal of marriage penalty, estate tax, and higher child tax credit.

•  Long-time supporter of efforts to strengthen the earned income tax credit to provide relief to lower-income working American families.



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