Opposing a national sales tax on working families and supporting a tax cut to benefit the middle class.

HRES 212 is a symbolic House resolution opposing H.R. 25 (the FairTax Act of 2023), which would impose a 30% national sales tax on all goods and services. The resolution states this tax would raise annual grocery costs by $3,500, car prices by $10,000, and home prices by $125,000 for typical families, disproportionately impacting seniors and fixed-income households. It supports middle-class tax cuts instead, while opposing any tax policy that cuts Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid funding. As a non-binding resolution, it expresses the House’s position but does not change tax law.