New Jersey Citizen Action Criticizes New Jersey Members of Congress for Helping to Defeat Middle-Class Tax Cut Bill

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Six New Jersey House Members Vote to Protect Bush Tax Cuts for Richest 2% at Expense of Other 98%

Highland Park, NJ – New Jersey Citizen Action criticized members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation who helped to defeat a middle-class tax bill in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday. The bill would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for every state resident on the first $250,000 in household income, but would end them above that level, which only benefit the richest 2 percent of Americans. The House rejected the legislation, 257 to 170, one week after the Senate passed the same middle-class tax cut bill, 51 to 48. (You can see how all House members voted here).