Taxes on low- and middle-income families
How much low- and middle-income households pay in taxes, and which tax cuts, credits and exemptions reach them, such as the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and whether tips and overtime are taxed.
What they call for
DemocratsRepublicans44 new members addressed this issue (with these filters). Many call for more than one thing.
Cut taxes for working and middle-class families22Expand the Child Tax Credit16Make the tax code fairer to working and middle-class families10End income taxes on tips6Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit5End income taxes on overtime pay4Oppose tax increases on working and middle-class families4Cut taxes for seniors, including on Social Security benefits3Eliminate income taxes for lower-income working families2
Cut taxes for working and middle-class families
22 members“Expanding Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit: These middle class tax breaks have proven extremely effective at combating poverty, especially child poverty, and stimulating the local economy.”View on their website ↗
“I’m fighting to lower the cost of living for families across our district who are being squeezed by everyday costs rising faster than their paychecks. That means raising wages, cutting taxes for working families, and making the biggest corporations finally pay their fair share.”View on their website ↗
“Cut taxes for working families. Cut taxes for working and middle-class families while closing loopholes that let big corporations and the ultra-wealthy avoid paying their fair share.”View on their website ↗
“I would have happily joined with Republicans to pass a bill that extends middle class tax cuts and levels the playing field for small businesses – I’ve been saying this for years.”View on their website ↗
“Get real results on affordability by delivering meaningful tax relief for families and small businesses, investing in American workers, and strengthening domestic industries — not selling our future to foreign adversaries.”View on their website ↗
“Oliver supports common sense tax policies indexed to what families in our communities actually earn, so that relief reaches the people who need it most and keeps money in working people’s hands.”View on their website ↗
“Sydney is ready to cut taxes and fight rising costs so working families can afford gas, groceries, and everyday essentials.”View on their website ↗
“A Tax Cut for Our Middle Class”View on their website ↗
“I’ll fight for a middle class tax cut while ensuring large corporations and the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share so middle class Americans get a much needed tax cut.”View on their website ↗
“Led coalition to provide Inflation Relief, resulting in the Middle Class Tax Refund sending back up to $1,000 to every California family.”View on their website ↗
“Jake will vote to end the massive tariffs and the Iran War, fight the corporate monopolies, and cut taxes for working families.”View on their website ↗
“And I will support tax cuts for working families and small businesses, paid for by raising taxes and closing loopholes for big corporations and the super wealthy.”View on their website ↗
“Make giant corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share of taxes while cutting taxes for the middle class”View on their website ↗
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“I’ll cut taxes for working families, repeal harmful tariffs that raise prices, build more affordable housing, cap childcare costs, support eldercare, and lower energy bills by making big corporations—not Ohio families—pay for data center infrastructure.”View on their website ↗
“That means cutting taxes for working families, lowering costs, standing up for small businesses, and making billionaires pay their fair share. It means strengthening workers’ rights and raising wages so people can actually get ahead.”View on their website ↗
“Enact tax cuts for the middle class”View on their website ↗
“Created and implemented the largest tax cut in Maine history to put more money in working people’s pockets and eliminate income taxes for the working poor.”View on their website ↗
“That’s why I’m fighting for progressive policies like Medicare for All, affordable childcare, tax breaks for everyday Americans, and a tax on the ultrawealthy.”View on their website ↗
“True financial responsibility means everyone pays their fair share, so we can lower the deficit and put more money in the pockets of working families. By raising the corporate tax rate, increasing taxes on the highest earners, and eliminating loopholes like Carried Interest, we can finance the most effective tax breaks for working people to help more people afford a home, build a family, or start a business.”View on their website ↗
“From cracking down on slumlords, to leading disaster relief with the Red Cross, helping attract new jobs and businesses to Michigan and expanding tax relief for working families as State Senator.”View on their website ↗
“In the State Legislature, he stood up to polluters to protect Lake Michigan, and he cut taxes for working families.”View on their website ↗
“The stories spotlight McCann’s proven record of delivering tax relief for working families and seniors, expanding access to affordable child care, and investing in workforce development.”View on their website ↗
“Cost of living? We expanded the working families tax cut, ended the retirement tax, and right now we’re working to lower energy bills.”View on their website ↗
“In the Michigan Senate, I’ve taken steps to ease the tax burden for regular folks and try to make life a little more affordable—and I’ll work to do the same for you in Congress.”View on their website ↗
“Backed tax relief for working families and seniors, including proposals to eliminate state income taxes on tips and overtime pay.”View on their website ↗
“Made lowering costs for middle-class families and retirees a campaign priority, including reducing tax burdens and healthcare expenses.”View on their website ↗
“Cut taxes for working families while ensuring that corporations and the top 1% pay their fair share. The middle class deserves real relief – no more unfair handouts to billionaires so they can buy another private jet. We should be working to help more families take a step up into the middle class, and that includes cutting their taxes.”View on their website ↗
“Mendoza has a proven record of calling for tax cuts for hardworking families — not billionaires and corporations — and for a modernized tax code where the wealthiest pay their fair share.”View on their website ↗
“In Congress, she’ll be focused on honoring our veterans and on lowering costs and tax cuts for Arizona families–not tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations.”View on their website ↗
“As our State Senator and President Pro Tem of the Michigan Senate, he successfully implemented effective gun safety laws, protected and expanded reproductive freedom, and provided tax relief for seniors and working families.”View on their website ↗
“While unelected billionaires in DC play games with our economy, Jeremy returned a billion dollars to Michigan taxpayers by repealing Republican taxes on seniors and expanding tax credits to working families.”View on their website ↗
“I’ll expand tax credits for millions of working parents, make billionaires pay what they owe in taxes, and close tax loopholes for corporations.”View on their website ↗
“In the State House, Amish cut taxes for middle-class families, championed small businesses, and worked across the aisle to make housing and health care more affordable.”View on their website ↗
“I support tax breaks for the hard-working middle class, not billionaires.”View on their website ↗
“Shannon will fight to cut taxes for working families and small businesses – not for billionaires and corporate special interests.”View on their website ↗
“A fair tax system Three people own more wealth than the bottom half of our entire country, yet they’re the ones getting tax cuts while the rest of us struggle to get by. Working families shouldn’t be highly taxed during a cost of living crisis while the ultra rich use loopholes created by their buddies in Congress to escape paying their fair share. The most effective and fair way to increase government revenue is to tax the top 1% of income earners and wealth holders, and give working families the break we’ve earned.”View on their website ↗
Expand the Child Tax Credit
16 members“If childcare costs more than your job pays, how can you justify working? I’ll push to expand grants and the child tax credit for young families.”View on their website ↗
“Expanding Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit: These middle class tax breaks have proven extremely effective at combating poverty, especially child poverty, and stimulating the local economy.”View on their website ↗
“Protect the Child Tax Credit. Expand and protect the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit to put real money back into the pockets of families.”View on their website ↗
“Darializa will fight to divest the billions of taxpayer dollars we spend on senseless wars abroad, and invest those funds in child tax credits, baby bonds, and more.”View on their website ↗
“Child tax credits ($800 per child)”View on their website ↗
“I will expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and strengthen the Child Tax Credit for working families, while opposing tax policies that reward stock buybacks over payroll.”View on their website ↗
“I’ll fight for a Child Tax Credit that helps families keep more in their pocket each month and for investments in child care.”View on their website ↗
“Expanding the Child Tax Credit”View on their website ↗
“I am committed to expanding the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit to put money directly back in families’ pockets.”View on their website ↗
“Acabar con la pobreza infantil
El Child Tax Credit expandido, aprobado durante el COVID, redujo la pobreza infantil casi a la mitad en un solo año — luego el Congreso dejó que expirara y la pobreza infantil se duplicó de nuevo. Sabemos exactamente cómo acabar con la pobreza infantil en este país. Solo necesitamos la voluntad política para hacerlo.”View on their website ↗“Tax Fairness for Working Families: We must increase the child tax credit and make it fully refundable so it is fair for parents and the extra costs they have in raising the next generation. We need to finance these investments by ensuring the ultra wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share.”View on their website ↗
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“Restored Child Tax Credit + Universal School Meals: ~$2,200/year in new CTC money — $6,600 total ($3,600 for the kid under 6 + $3,000 for the school-age kid), now paid monthly, versus the ~$4,400 they already get. And the ~$1,200/year they already save on free school breakfast and lunch stays — federally guaranteed, no longer dependent on the state budget.”View on their website ↗
“Our tax code should promote fairness and opportunity for working people, small businesses, and family farms. That includes things like the permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit and standing up to reckless tariff policy that hurts Minnesota farmers, construction workers, and tradespeople who make an honest living building houses and products we use every day. It means telling the richest Americans that they don’t get to live by a different set of rules than the rest of us.”View on their website ↗
“She will work to modernize the Child Tax Credit to deliver relief to working families and oppose reckless tariffs that drive up costs.”View on their website ↗
“Fight to expand the Child Tax Credit back to $3,600 and make it permanent, to ensure working families receive the support they need to care for their children.”View on their website ↗
“Expand the child tax credit and child care credit. Day care in Missouri can run $14,000 a year per child.”View on their website ↗
“Make the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent, restoring the fully refundable, monthly-payment structure that cut child poverty nearly in half in 2021”View on their website ↗
Make the tax code fairer to working and middle-class families
10 members“Make Taxes Work for Working People”View on their website ↗
“Families who are working hard to make ends meet shouldn’t have to carry the same tax burden as billionaires.”View on their website ↗
“Working families shouldn’t pay a higher effective tax rate than multinational corporations. We need a tax system that is built on fairness.”View on their website ↗
“Tax Fairness for Working Families: We must increase the child tax credit and make it fully refundable so it is fair for parents and the extra costs they have in raising the next generation. We need to finance these investments by ensuring the ultra wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share.”View on their website ↗
“Make sure tax policy is fair and transparent—and doesn’t quietly raise taxes on middle-class families over time.”View on their website ↗
“Build out a more robust middle class through a fairer and equitable tax and economic policy”View on their website ↗
“I’m advocating to fix our tax system so that hardworking Americans – not just the wealthy few – can finally get their fair share of our nation’s prosperity.”View on their website ↗
“Our tax code should promote fairness and opportunity for working people, small businesses, and family farms. That includes things like the permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit and standing up to reckless tariff policy that hurts Minnesota farmers, construction workers, and tradespeople who make an honest living building houses and products we use every day. It means telling the richest Americans that they don’t get to live by a different set of rules than the rest of us.”View on their website ↗
“We must have a fair economy and that starts with a fair tax code. I don’t believe we should be giving billionaires tax cuts at a time when we are debating whether vulnerable children should have food provided by SNAP benefits. We need a tax code which empowers the middle class and raises people from poverty into the middle class.”View on their website ↗
“A fair tax system Three people own more wealth than the bottom half of our entire country, yet they’re the ones getting tax cuts while the rest of us struggle to get by. Working families shouldn’t be highly taxed during a cost of living crisis while the ultra rich use loopholes created by their buddies in Congress to escape paying their fair share. The most effective and fair way to increase government revenue is to tax the top 1% of income earners and wealth holders, and give working families the break we’ve earned.”View on their website ↗
“Oppose regressive tax structures that disproportionately burden low- and moderate-income families”View on their website ↗
End income taxes on tips
6 members“I’ll push both parties to reform the tax code so the folks at the top pay their fair share. And I’ll support reforms that help working people, like no tax on tips — real tips, not bonuses for CEOs.”View on their website ↗
“Repeal Congressional Republicans’ tax cuts for the ultra-rich. The vast majority of the benefits in the “Big Beautiful Bill” went to corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Let’s repeal those provisions, keep the parts that help working people, like no taxes on overtime and tips, and use those resources to start fixing housing, healthcare, and childcare.”View on their website ↗
“We shouldn’t tax social security, tips or overtime.”View on their website ↗
“Nancy Lacore supports provisions included in the bill including No Tax on Tips - but the bill disproportionately harms working families to give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations.”View on their website ↗
“Backed tax relief for working families and seniors, including proposals to eliminate state income taxes on tips and overtime pay.”View on their website ↗
“I support no tax on tips or overtime and would vote to make that permanent.”View on their website ↗
Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit
5 members“Expanding Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit: These middle class tax breaks have proven extremely effective at combating poverty, especially child poverty, and stimulating the local economy.”View on their website ↗
“Protect the Child Tax Credit. Expand and protect the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit to put real money back into the pockets of families.”View on their website ↗
“I will expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and strengthen the Child Tax Credit for working families, while opposing tax policies that reward stock buybacks over payroll.”View on their website ↗
“I am committed to expanding the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit to put money directly back in families’ pockets.”View on their website ↗
“HB24-1134, to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income families, which has cut child poverty nearly in half in Colorado.”View on their website ↗
End income taxes on overtime pay
4 members“Repeal Congressional Republicans’ tax cuts for the ultra-rich. The vast majority of the benefits in the “Big Beautiful Bill” went to corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Let’s repeal those provisions, keep the parts that help working people, like no taxes on overtime and tips, and use those resources to start fixing housing, healthcare, and childcare.”View on their website ↗
“We shouldn’t tax social security, tips or overtime.”View on their website ↗
“Backed tax relief for working families and seniors, including proposals to eliminate state income taxes on tips and overtime pay.”View on their website ↗
“I support no tax on tips or overtime and would vote to make that permanent.”View on their website ↗
Oppose tax increases on working and middle-class families
4 members“The 2017 Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act handed massive breaks to billionaires and big corporations, exploding the national debt and leaving working families to pick up the tab. Repealing those giveaways could raise over $1.5 trillion – enough to lower the debt, expand healthcare, and strengthen the safety net without raising taxes on working people.”View on their website ↗
“Tax the Rich, Not the Rest of Us”View on their website ↗
“Make sure tax policy is fair and transparent—and doesn’t quietly raise taxes on middle-class families over time.”View on their website ↗
“The cost of everyday essentials keeps climbing while big corporations rake in record profits. I’ll work to lower food costs by opposing tariffs and tax policies that raise prices for consumers and hurt working families.”View on their website ↗
Cut taxes for seniors, including on Social Security benefits
3 members“We shouldn’t tax social security, tips or overtime.”View on their website ↗
“The stories spotlight McCann’s proven record of delivering tax relief for working families and seniors, expanding access to affordable child care, and investing in workforce development.”View on their website ↗
“Cost of living? We expanded the working families tax cut, ended the retirement tax, and right now we’re working to lower energy bills.”View on their website ↗
“Backed tax relief for working families and seniors, including proposals to eliminate state income taxes on tips and overtime pay.”View on their website ↗
“Made lowering costs for middle-class families and retirees a campaign priority, including reducing tax burdens and healthcare expenses.”View on their website ↗
“As our State Senator and President Pro Tem of the Michigan Senate, he successfully implemented effective gun safety laws, protected and expanded reproductive freedom, and provided tax relief for seniors and working families.”View on their website ↗
“While unelected billionaires in DC play games with our economy, Jeremy returned a billion dollars to Michigan taxpayers by repealing Republican taxes on seniors and expanding tax credits to working families.”View on their website ↗
Eliminate income taxes for lower-income working families
2 members“Eliminate Income Taxes for Working Families”View on their website ↗
“Created and implemented the largest tax cut in Maine history to put more money in working people’s pockets and eliminate income taxes for the working poor.”View on their website ↗
Raised the issue without a specific call
1 member“The tax code is riddled with loopholes that reward wealth over work and allow those at the top to avoid paying what they owe. Meanwhile, working families and small businesses carry the burden, and we’re building up debt at a level that’s going to bankrupt our kids and grandkids.”View on their website ↗
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