How much does Lon Johnson want to raise taxes?

May 10, 2016

Does MI-01 candidate Lon Johnson support the Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton plan to raise taxes on Michigan families?

Clinton wants to raise taxes by $498 million over the next decade, which will reduce the GDP by 1% and cost 311,000 jobs.  Sanders wants to raise taxes by $13.6 trillion – a plan including a $4,700 per year tax on middle class households – that will decrease the GDP by 9.5% and cost 5.973 million jobs.

Since Sanders wiped the floor with Clinton in MI-01 in the presidential primary, will Johnson join his Democratic base in embracing the Sanders plan to raise taxes, or will Johnson snub MI-01 Democrats by warmly embracing Hillary Clinton’s tax hike plan instead?

NRCC Comment: “Lon Johnson should say whether he would support the tax hike plan of Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders if he were somehow elected to Congress.  Voters deserve to know just how much Lon Johnson and Democrats want to raise taxes on Michigan families.” -NRCC Spokesman Chris Pack