While some professional politicians are peddling the false rumor that middle class Americans’ taxes are going up, Jon believes it’s time for “rhetoric to meet reality.”

Thanks to Jon’s hard work passing tax cuts for middle class Americans, and according to third party public interest groups like Citizens for Tax Justice, Montana families are paying less in taxes and seeing more cash in their pockets.

The most significant tax cuts in decades for middle-class Montanans came as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which Jon helped write and pass. One-third of the Recovery Act was tax cuts, and it’s estimated Montanans will see more than $575 million in tax relief through the law, which included:

• the Making Work Pay tax credit
• the first time homebuyer tax credit (offering up to an $8,000 credit or up to 10% of the purchase price of the residence to new homebuyers)
• the child tax credit
• the earned income tax credit
• and Social Security and Veterans tax credits

Small businesses across Montana and the nation are seeing sizable tax credits to help provide health insurance to their employees as part of the health care reform law. Tax credits through the HIRE Act were aimed at small businesses to hire unemployed workers. And Jon helped pass the Small Business Jobs Act which cut taxes for small businesses by more than $12 billion without adding to national debt.

And in 2010, Jon voted in favor of a bipartisan tax compromise that cut taxes for all Americans – including middle-class families, small business and family farms and ranches – saying at the time, “This plan isn’t the plan I would have written, but it cuts taxes for the folks who need tax relief the most.”

Click HERE to see more about where Jon stands on cutting taxes for working Montanans.