Grassley's comments came after a hearing at which experts testified about the federal tax hardships facing families.
Families deserve red-carpet treatment from the tax code.
That has to change. If we want to preserve families, we have to ease the tax code's tight grip on family income. Tax relief for married couples also has been a long-time subject of debate in Washington, Grassley said. He predicted that Congress and the President will act on marriage tax relief this year because there's a growing consensus in favor of income tax relief for married couples both those who have a parent stay at home, as well as those couples in which both the husband and wife work. Grassley said he was pleased that the House Democrats' tax cuts proposal embraces the idea that the tax code should help marriage regardless of whether one parent or two parents work.