Sentences with phrase «expense of the middle class»

«It appears that the administration's last year is dedicated to furthering an extremist agenda at the very real expense of the middle class and low - income families, through tax hikes on energy and a barrage of unnecessary and duplicative regulations that are catering to the well - funded, radical whims of leave it in the ground activists.»

Democrats call the plan a giveaway to corporations at the expense of the middle class, expressing concerns about the $ 1 trillion or more it is projected to add to federal budget deficits over a decade.

Democrats call the Republican proposal a giveaway to corporations at the expense of the middle class, issuing dire warnings about the $ 1 trillion or more it is projected to add to federal budget deficits over a decade.

But even in Davos, which is favored by champions of globalization, there is vocal opposition to trade from critics who say it has benefited the elites at the expense of the middle class in many parts of the world.

Every cut is at the expense of the middle class and poorer people.

The Republican budget cuts housing assistance, food stamps, heating projects, community development funds — all at the expense of the middle class and working families — while they cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans.

«This is clearly a smokescreen to mask Senate Republican support for giving a tax break to millionaires — half of which don't even live in New York — at the expense of the middle class.»

They represented dozens of progressive groups calling out the governor's budget as benefitting the weathly at the expense of the middle class.

Let's be clear about what the Congressional Republican tax plan really is: It is Washington's culture of soft - corruption at its worst - nothing more than paying back wealthy donors and lobbyists through corporate welfare, at the expense of the middle class.

Schumer and other Democrats consistently have characterized the bill as a giveaway to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class, with elimination of SALT as the marquee element for high - tax states like New York.

«Really, when you get down to it Scott Brown and Mitt Romney are a couple of failed Massachusetts politicians who own summer homes in New Hampshire and now want to stand for Wall Street and big oil at the expense of the middle class in New Hampshire,» Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Thomas McGee told reporters on a conference Tuesday.

«He's for the rich and powerful at the expense of the middle class.»

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer railed against the proposal as a thinly veiled giveaway to the wealthy at the expense of middle class taxpayers.

«Meanwhile, the highly paid lobbyists for millionaires in the Business Council and other right - wing groups are trying to take money out of the pockets of nurses, firefighters and other workers, so Wall Street can further enrich itself at the expense of the middle class.

Democrats criticized the provisions phasing - out the inheritance tax and repeal of the alternative minimum tax on the highest earners, the Associated Press reported, and said the cuts come at the expense of the middle class.

The Democratic argument that the GOP bill favors the rich at the expense of the middle class and poor is «flat wrong,» he said.

Currently, the system is rigged against the middle class because everything is geared toward taking your money and transferring it to banks and investment companies who are often one and the same due to legal changes that have favored the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

Currently, the system is rigged against the middle class because everything is geared toward taking your money and transferring it to banks and investment companies who are often one and the same due to legal changes that have favored the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.