AFP Dismisses Tax-Hike Chatter As Unserious, Unproductive - Americans for Prosperity

AFP Dismisses Tax-Hike Chatter As Unserious, Unproductive - Americans for Prosperity

Raising Taxes of Any Kind Anathema to Pro-Growth Policies Arlington, VA – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today called on conservatives to stay aligned with pro-growth tax policies and rebuke the notion of raising taxes on anyone. AFP launched the largest effort by any conservative group to support President Trump’s pro-growth tax policies in 2017 and has again in 2025. “Raising income taxes on any earner is wrong for America economically and sug…

Middle-class Americans thrived under Trump’s tax cuts. Here’s the proof.

As the 2025 fiscal cliff approaches, key provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are set to expire — triggering one of the largest planned tax hikes in U.S. history. If Congress fails to act, the hardest hit won’t be billionaires or Wall Street elites. It will be working- and middle-class Americans ...

The Mythical “Hollowing Out of the Middle Class”

One of the most persistent myths we are hearing out of Republicans is that the middle class is falling behind in recent decades. The GOP is weirdly starting to sound like Bernie Sanders. Here is the official Census data on median household income: The period 1980 to 2021 saw the largest gain in real median family income in recorded history. Factory jobs have been lost to higher paying jobs – just as 100 years ago farm jobs were replaced by tract…

Trump’s tax cuts tend to Westport parents

According to Piketty, in the early 1980s, the top 10% of US households held 50% of the nation’s total wealth, while the bottom 50% held 10%. In the first quarter of 2024, the top 10% of US households held approximately 67%  of the nation’s total wealth, while the bottom 50% held approximately 2.5%, according to...