CSE Decries Senate Vote to Reduce President’s Tax Relief Plan

WASHINGTON DC – Today the Senate narrowly passed (51-48) an amendment to the budget resolution to reduce the President’s tax relief package to just $350 billion through 2013. CSE President Paul Beckner made the following statement:

“On behalf of the nearly 280,000 members of Citizens for a Sound Economy, I want to express our extreme disappointment in the Senators who voted to slash America’s tax cut by over 50 percent. The economy is too shaky and the tax burden too high for our tax relief be yanked away.

“Fortunately, there is still time for the Senate to pass other amendments to deliver meaningful tax relief to the American economy. I urge the leadership in the Senate to do everything possible to reverse this harmful action and increase the budget number to the President’s request.”