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Why Protecting Tax Cuts Matters
In 2017, Trump’s Tax Cuts gave families an average of $1,500 back each year, fueled job growth, and helped small businesses thrive. But in 2025, these vital tax cuts are set to expire – leading to higher taxes for all Americans.
Inflation has already hit families hard, and a bigger tax bill is the last thing we need. Extending these tax cuts means more stability, more opportunity, and a stronger future for everyone.
Keep reading to discover why protecting tax cuts matters for Americans.
Help Americans Deal With Washington’s Inflation
Skyrocketing inflation fueled by reckless government spending has put a huge strain on family budgets. During the Biden years, prices went up more than 20%, with middle-class families forced to spend $1,000 more a month just to stay even. If we let the tax cuts expire, middle class Americans would pay an additional $1,500 a year in taxes, leaving them even less money to pay Washington’s higher prices. By keeping the 2017 tax cuts, we can better help hard-working Americans make ends meet.
It’s Your Money, Not Washington’s
The way some in Washington talk, you’d think they had more of a claim to our hard-earned money than we do. Baloney. It’s our money. We earned it. And we need it. Letting the Trump tax cuts expire would cost Americans $4 trillion more in taxes over ten years – $1,500 more a year for the average family of four. Higher individual taxes would mean less money in our paychecks. Higher business taxes could mean higher prices at the store. It would be irresponsible to let these tax cuts expire when Americans are struggling.
Help Mom-and-Pop Businesses Thrive
Mom-and-Pop businesses are the backbone of the American economy and are already dealing with higher input costs and labor issues. They don’t need the added burden of higher taxes. These businesses are usually organized in a way that the owners report their business income on their personal tax returns and pay taxes based on individual tax brackets. Letting the Trump tax cuts expire would raise individual tax rates, increasing taxes on small business owners and leaving them less to reinvest in their businesses or hire more workers.
No Bailout For Big-Spending Politicians
Washington’s reckless overspending not only drove up government debt to dangerous levels but also led to our runaway inflation. If Congress lets the Trump tax cuts to expire, it would amount to a $4 trillion bailout for the progressive politicians who created this mess. Americans have had to tighten their belts for years; now it should be the government’s turn.
Taxes Aren’t Causing Deficits, Spending Is
Big-spending politicians claim the Trump tax cuts starved the government of revenue and drove up deficits. Not so. The Congressional Budget Office reports federal revenues were 17.2% of the overall economy (GDP) in 2024, right at the 30-year historical average of 17.3%. Spending is another story. It was 24.2% of GDP in 2024, far more than the 30-year historical average of 21.0%. CBO says in ten years it will be almost 25%. The numbers don’t lie – government has a spending problem. So, before the politicians even think about taking another dime in higher taxes, they need to get spending under control.
Keep American Companies in America
The Trump tax plan lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in a successful effort to stop American companies from moving operations to other countries with lower taxes. Not only did U.S. companies stop moving overseas, but many of them relocated back to America. Lower corporate taxes also led to an increase in domestic investment, faster economic growth, and higher wages. Some now want to raise the corporate rate back up to 28%, but corporations would then be forced to raise prices or reduce labor – and we don’t need either!
Don’t Feed a Rigged System
In the last fiscal year, the government made $236 billion in so-called “improper payments,” the result of carelessness, incompetence, and fraud. Why should we send even more money to Washington when the government wastes so much of what we send now? Letting our tax cuts expire would feed trillions into a rigged system that seems only to benefit the politicians and their political supporters – not American families.