Statement
Statement on "Tax Reform and Small Businesses: Growing Our Economy and Creating Jobs"
… WRITTEN STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY THE AFL-CIO TO THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HEARING ON “TAX REFORM AND SMALL BUSINESSES: GROWING OUR ECONOMY AND CREATING JOBS” … benefit working people and reducing public investment that supports good jobs and a strong economy over the long term. Right on cue, some Republicans have already started calling for cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to make up … and wage growth is extraordinarily weak. As Senator Marco Rubio said recently, “There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers. …