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I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

— Peter Welch

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

— Rick Larsen

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

— John Podhoretz

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

— Paul Tonko

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

— Barack Obama

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

— Ken Jennings

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

— Steve Chabot

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

— Tim Walz

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

— Alexi Giannoulias

My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.

— Brad Schneider

✗Opposing Perspectives

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

— Barack Obama