The top Democrat in the Senate joked during an interview last week that the recent tax-reform proposal unveiled by Republicans — including Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch — is inherently “anti-Mormon.”
“Let me tell you, this is an anti-Mormon bill, it’s an anti-Orthodox Jewish bill in the sense that these people have lots of kids and they’re losing those deductions,” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said with a laugh during an episode of the “Pod Save America” podcast.
The New York senator is right to an extent. People who don’t itemize and have large families would likely end up with a bigger taxable income under the plan because it would eliminate personal exemptions for each child.