Chuck Schumer Mocks Notion That People Resent Spending Money They Earned On Taxes

Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer mocked so-called “greedy” Republicans who want to keep the money they earned during a Tuesday appearance on “The View.”

Schumer said the Democrat Party is “united” in opposing President Donald Trump’s economic agenda, who he accused of supporting tax cuts for wealthy Americans, and scoffed at the idea that business owners and workers do not want to spend their earnings in taxes. He accused the Republican Party of being run by a “small group of wealthy, greedy people” who do not want the government to be a “barrier” on their finances and businesses.

“We are totally united in one thing, many things, but one thing above all. We are united in going after Trump and showing the American people that he is making the middle class pay for the taxes on the rich,” Schumer said. “Today we’re doing it on Medicaid. You know where we’re going to do it very soon? On the tariffs. He wants to put these tariffs in that’s gonna raise you folks, the average family, $2,000 a year for these tariffs. Why is he doing that, something so stupid? He wants to use that money for tax cuts for the billionaires. The Republican Party is a different kettle of fish than it used to be. And that’s why we’re fighting them so hard. They are controlled by a small group of wealthy, greedy people.”

“And you know what their attitude is? ‘I made my money all by myself, how dare your government take my money from me? I don’t want to pay taxes.’ Or ‘I built my company with my bare hands, how dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, the land and water that I own or my employees?’ They hate government, government’s a barrier to people, a barrier to stop them from doing things, they want to destroy it, we are not letting them do it and we’re united,” Schumer continued.

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Schumer angered his fellow Democrats Friday by backing the GOP government funding bill to avoid a shutdown, causing some to oppose his continued leadership. He