Gov. Pete Ricketts' proposed tax cuts continue in the slow lane through the Nebraska Legislature.

For the second straight day lawmakers debated the pros and cons of Ricketts' plan which would cut the state's top individual and corporate income tax rates.

State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan insists all Nebraskans will benefit from the cuts but at times today some lawmakers on the left and right worried the cuts for the rich far outweigh the cuts for the middle class.

State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, Omaha (D): "But I do think that our income taxes need to be addressed people who make $50,000 and $500,000 shouldn't be paying the same percentage of income taxes."

State Sen. Mike Groene, North Platte (): "But the people I see hurting who don't want to come here and work for their corporations are the middle class and they need an income tax cut: the working people. So they're incentivized to come here and live here. That's where we need to cut the income taxes to the middle class."

State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, Elkhorn (R): "But we had growth over 5 percent in revenues for the past four years. We can pay for this with growth...what we're simply doing is we're getting more revenue than we need and we can give it back to the people who paid the bill."

The tax cut debate is expected to resume next week.

Right now the package on the floor would cut state revenues by nearly 64 million dollars next year and nearly 180 million the following year.

Some lawmakers argue the money should be stocked away in case the economy falters.