Bob Casey calls for child tax credits and middle class tax cuts at New Cumberland event

US Sen. Bob Casey met with voters in New Cumberland on Thursday and called for renewing the child tax credit and passing a middle class tax cut following the election. 

US Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) is making his closing pitch to voters with less than three weeks to go until Election Day. 

Casey remained true to form and continued to make the argument for taking on corporate greed and the billionaires funding his opponent’s campaign. 

“We can say that billionaires are not going to buy this state. I look forward on election night to be able to say we beat the billionaires,” Casey told supporters in New Cumberland on Thursday.  

Throughout his remarks, Casey called for letting Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for billionaires and corporations expire while pushing for renewing the child tax credit and for cutting taxes for middle class Americans.

“If you give away the store again to very wealthy Americans and big corporations, there’s no possibility, no possibility of a middle class tax cut,” Casey said.

“That’s what we should do with tax policy. We should give the middle class a real break and we should make sure that we have the robust version of the child tax credit as part of our tax law again.”

Casey, who was flanked by US Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) and State Rep. Patty Kim (D-Dauphin), is running for his fourth term in office this November against Dave McCormick, a former Connecticut-based hedge fund manager.

“My opponent wants to double down on those corporate tax breaks, double down on those billionaire tax breaks,” Casey said. “That’s going to jack up the debt by not one, not two, not three, more than $4 trillion. By some estimates it’s above $5 trillion.”

Following the event, Casey emphasized that Pennsylvanians will have to make a choice for how this race plays out.

“I think what is before the people of our state is a really clear choice,” Casey said.

“I mentioned earlier this is a very clear choice on rights, very clear choice on what we’re going to do with tax policy, which will affect all of our lives and funding for major programs that help the most vulnerable among us. People have to choose. There’s no middle ground here. They have to choose one path or the other.”