CHARLIE MELANCON – “Tax relief for middle class families will help our economy and will help the pocketbooks of so many Louisianans who work hard and play by the rules. “I support tax relief for everyone. If it comes down to funding for our schools, for our troops, or for affordable prescription drugs or tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, I will side with our seniors, soldiers and school kids."

Strategies:

* Cut income taxes for middle-class families

* Repeal the marriage tax penalty

* Repeal the “death tax” on estates

* Expand the child tax credit

* Support the recent tax cut extensions passed by Congress