THE TRUTH ABOUT BILL HUDAK #1: BILL HUDAK WOULD SUPPORT POLICIES WHICH WOULD WIPE OUT THE MIDDLE CLASS
PEABODY, MA— While John has worked tirelessly to protect middle-class families in the 6th district and around the country, Bill Hudak would support policies that would wipe out middle-class Americans.
“Mr. Hudak's out of touch policy proposals, including eliminating the Department of Education, supporting a radical tax agenda and repealing Wall Street reform would wipe out middle class Americans,” said Tierney spokesperson Laura Keiter.
Examples of Hudak’s harmful policy proposals:
Bill Hudak supports a radical economic agenda that favors Wall Street bankers over middle-class Americans. Bill Hudak supports a radical economic agenda that favors Wall Street bankers over middle-class Americans. He has said that he would roll back policies which were recently put in place to rein in the Wall Street excess which cost us 8 million jobs, caused the deepest recession in 70 years and cost millions of hardworking Americans their retirement savings.
Bill Hudak’s out of touch education plan would mean less funding for local schools, causing local property taxes to sky-rocket, and making it more difficult for students to pay for college. In addition to stating his desire to eliminate the Department of Education on two radio interviews, Hudak also indicated his support for this radical plan when he filled out the Greater Boston Tea Party Federal Legislative questionnaire. On the Bostonian Rap radio program, Bill Hudak said "I see at the Federal level in particular, there is a monumental failure on the part of the federal government. Which my view is, it has to get out of education all together. Because you cannot from Washington legislate or dictate what is happening in a community that might be hundreds or thousands of miles away."
Eliminating the Department of Education would end Pell Grants and other aid to help students pay for college. There are 125,000 Pell grant recipients in Massachusetts and 185,000 federal student loan borrowers would not receive assistance if the Department of Education were eliminated. Funding for Title I, which assists low-income and minority schools, would be eliminated, causing major budget deficits for cities and towns, including 88 Title I schools in the 6th District.
Hudak has been a vocal advocate for a Flat Tax that would benefit his fellow millionaires over the middle class. Bill Hudak says a uniform tax rate would be "more fair to everybody." Were his “flat tax” plan enacted, with the Bush tax cuts in place, it would mean a 22% tax cut for the rich, and after the expiration of the Bush tax cuts a 26.6% tax cuts for the rich. A flat tax would eliminate deductions, credits and exclusions which benefit all Americans. These deductions play important roles in our lives and include deductions for mortgage interest, property taxes, charitable contributions and pension contributions.
Hudak believes that our laws are burdensome and that we should repeal all of them. Hudak recently stated that he "want[s] to be known that gets into office and has repealed more laws then he has actually introduced.” [Source: Hudak campaign event] In stark contrast, the Democratic-led Congress has recently passed the largest increase in funding for veterans health care in the last 77 years, policies to protect middle-class Americans and to rein in Wall Street excess, and legislation that is expected to save nearly 3,000 jobs for teachers and other education professionals in Massachusetts alone. It is unclear why anyone would want to take away such important legislation.
John has long advocated for policies that protect the middle-class. He has tirelessly worked to help increase college affordability and ensure that all students have access to a high quality education. He supports commonsense reforms that protect consumers and put the interests of Main Street over the interests of Wall Street and was one of only 57 members of Congress to vote against deregulating the big banks. John believes that in order to help create jobs and put people back to work, we must develop an innovative new national policy to ensure that goods and services are made in America.
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