What Cory Booker has said about Keeping Your Pay Act

Booker says his plan would cut child poverty in half and give a single mother earning $60,000 nearly $6,000 more.

“So this cuts child poverty in half. This cuts the overall poverty rate, and I've seen different estimates by people who've run the numbers from 10% to greater”

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Booker says the plan costs nothing because it is funded by eliminating corporate tax avoidance schemes.

“it doesn't cost anything if you are taking away all of these uh tax avoidance schemes of the largest corporations and you use it to fund this, then it costs nothing”

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Booker rejects the anti-tax label, saying he is instead opposed to working-class people being financially squeezed.

“I am not anti-tax. I am pro-working people keeping more of their money”

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Booker argues Democrats need five big ideas delivered within the first three months of power so voters feel immediate change.

“Five big ideas. that we in the first three months do and everybody feels a real change in their lives”

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