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Go ahead and radicalize me some more. The child tax credit is the only reason I was able to replace my transmission in my car in December. Without it I'd have no vehicle right now and lose my job.
It's the only thing that might make having kids a reasonable idea. Without it, I might as well get snipped.
Trust me, no it's not... now if we had some kind of plan to help parents eliminate most or all of daycare costs then that would absolutely help with the decision to have one. The child tax credit is nice, but it barely helps with anything.
Agreed. I spent nearly $12k last year and I might see 3 of it back. For clarification we pulled out youngest son out of daycare in August or September. Not all of the 12k was his costs but most of it was (probably around 10k-10.5k) it was near $1300 a month when we pulled him out after a large increase after the summer months.
Crapo told NBC News on Tuesday that he still has problems with “a number” of provisions. He said he wants to eliminate a “look-back” policy that would let a taxpayer use a previous year’s income if it yielded a larger child tax credit, arguing that the current language weakens the work requirement. Saying the bill would “create entitlement spending that would generate significantly higher deficits,” he called for spending cuts to fund the child tax credit expansion.
Republicans LOVE to talk about the deficit when a democrat is in power. Remember that tax bill Trump shoved through that had ZERO regard for the deficit? Pepperidge farms remembers.
“Those are just the start,” Crapo said, adding that he likes the business tax breaks. But about the individual tax provisions…
Yay business tax breaks… Boo individual! Think of all the bullshit schemes corporations can do to not pay taxes. But we gotta make sure to hammer down anything that might benefit the poor/middle class.
It’s still 1984 isn't it.
Can't be letting that 1% of Americans who got a raise just above some threshold score an additional child tax exemption. But for the top 1% who make millions off of bogus exemptions we must do everything possible to destroy and defund the IRS so they cannot be questioned or audited.
It's SOCIALISM to use TAX DOLLARS to help STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!
-Republicans who LOVE giving Tax Dollars to Billionaires!
You'd think the party of Breeding wouldn't go after a bill that would encourage the creation of more workers, but I guess Communism is more scary than losing profits.
They have their forced birth now, why would they do anything to make the lives of the slaves any better?
Crapo told NBC News on Tuesday that he still has problems with “a number” of provisions. He said he wants to eliminate a “look-back” policy that would let a taxpayer use a previous year’s income if it yielded a larger child tax credit, arguing that the current language weakens the work requirement. Saying the bill would “create entitlement spending that would generate significantly higher deficits,” he called for spending cuts to fund the child tax credit expansion.
Oh, you mean the same Senator Crapo who voted for the Trump tax bill? You know, the one that added $1.9 trillion to our national debt?
Go fuck yourself, Mike.