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
DemocratsRepublicans8 new members addressed this issue (with these filters). Many call for more than one thing.
Cut taxes for working and middle-class families
5 members“Andy has always fought for tax cuts. In 2025, he voted for the largest tax cut in American history, the Big Beautiful Bill. The average Kentucky family with two kids saves $4,200 under the new tax law that Andy helped author, champion, and push through Congress.”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 ↗
“Sydney is ready to cut taxes and fight rising costs so working families can afford gas, groceries, and everyday essentials.”View on their website ↗
“I worked with President Trump and my House Republican colleagues to ensure that we not only extended President Trump’s historic tax cuts, but found new areas to cut taxes for seniors, hardworking Americans, and 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 ↗
End income taxes on tips
3 members“Andy has always fought for tax cuts. In 2025, he voted for the largest tax cut in American history, the Big Beautiful Bill. The average Kentucky family with two kids saves $4,200 under the new tax law that Andy helped author, champion, and push through Congress.”View on their website ↗
“The Big Beautiful Bill ended taxes on Social Security for seniors, taxes on overtime for Kentucky workers, and tips for Kentucky’s great waiters and waitresses.”View on their website ↗
“We shouldn’t tax social security, tips or overtime.”View on their website ↗
“Make the One Big Beautiful Bill’s no-tax-on-tips provision permanent”View on their website ↗
End income taxes on overtime pay
3 members“Andy has always fought for tax cuts. In 2025, he voted for the largest tax cut in American history, the Big Beautiful Bill. The average Kentucky family with two kids saves $4,200 under the new tax law that Andy helped author, champion, and push through Congress.”View on their website ↗
“The Big Beautiful Bill ended taxes on Social Security for seniors, taxes on overtime for Kentucky workers, and tips for Kentucky’s great waiters and waitresses.”View on their website ↗
“We shouldn’t tax social security, tips or overtime.”View on their website ↗
“Make the One Big Beautiful Bill’s no-tax-on-overtime provision permanent”View on their website ↗
Cut taxes for seniors, including on Social Security benefits
3 members“Andy has always fought for tax cuts. In 2025, he voted for the largest tax cut in American history, the Big Beautiful Bill. The average Kentucky family with two kids saves $4,200 under the new tax law that Andy helped author, champion, and push through Congress.”View on their website ↗
“The Big Beautiful Bill ended taxes on Social Security for seniors, taxes on overtime for Kentucky workers, and tips for Kentucky’s great waiters and waitresses.”View on their website ↗
“We shouldn’t tax social security, tips or overtime.”View on their website ↗
“I worked with President Trump and my House Republican colleagues to ensure that we not only extended President Trump’s historic tax cuts, but found new areas to cut taxes for seniors, hardworking Americans, and families.”View on their website ↗
Expand the Child Tax Credit
1 member“Expand and protect the Child Tax Credit for working families”View on their website ↗
Eliminate income taxes for lower-income working families
1 member“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“Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, working families and small business owners can count on a real tax cut.”View on their website ↗
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