Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Republican Proposal to Permanently Extend Bush Tax Cuts

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 9, 2011.  Yesterday Republicans on the so-called “Super Committee” proposed lowering tax rates for the richest Americans while cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in Social Security and Medicare benefits that middle class Americans depend on.  This is Robin Hood in reverse: class warfare against the American middle class on behalf of the top 1 percent. 

You can’t use budget deficits as an excuse to cut middle class benefits one minute, and the…