“A middle-class family with two children will get a 35 percent tax cut under my plan.”
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed December 22, 2017, cut federal income taxes for most middle-income families with children, chiefly by doubling the child tax credit and standard deduction; the administration put the 2018 cut for a family of four earning $75,000 at over $2,000, which for that archetype amounts to well over a 35% cut in federal income-tax liability. Independent distributional estimates, however, showed the average household earning $50,000-$75,000 received about $870, roughly 1.6% of after-tax income, and outcomes varied widely by family (some households in high-tax states saw smaller cuts or increases). A tax cut for middle-class families with children was delivered, but a uniform 35% reduction was not.
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