Posted on 02/04/2021 7:27:34 PM PST by buckalfa
Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) on Thursday unveiled a proposal for a monthly child allowance, in which most parents of children younger than six would receive $350 and parents of kids ages six to 17 would receive $250.
Romney’s Family Security Act is similar to a Democratic plan to increase the child tax credit from $2,600 to $3,600 as part of Biden’s coronavirus relief legislation. Democrats want to boost the tax credit, make it “fully refundable” so that lower-income parents qualify, and have the Internal Revenue Service disburse the payments in advance on a monthly basis, essentially creating a child allowance through tax code.
In contrast, Romney’s proposal would distribute benefits from the Social Security Administration and the new payments would take the place of several existing tax benefits, including the child tax credit and the deduction for state and local taxes, as well as the entire Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
Doing away with the existing benefits would likely be a hard sell among Democrats.
Under Romney’s proposal, expecting parents would be eligible to receive payments beginning four months before their child is born. Benefits would be limited to $1,250 per month and couples with combined incomes above $400,000 would get less. An estimated 90 percent of households with children would qualify.
Romney’s proposal would reduce child poverty by nearly a third, according to an analysis by the Niskanen Center, a moderate think tank that separately helped both the Democrats and Romney with their plans. The Democrats’ tax credit plan would reduce child poverty by 39 percent, the analysis showed.
If Romney’s idea were implemented without cuts to other assistance programs, it would reduce child poverty by 40 percent.
Romney’s aides told the Huffington Post that the proposal is aimed at encouraging child-rearing, rather than slashing poverty.
“We simply think this is about making a national commitment to America’s families,” an aide said.
His aides said the Utah Republican, who has five kids himself, hoped Democrats would consider incorporating his proposal into their COVID relief bill.
Neither option is constitutional.
Do neither. It is not the federal government’s business and wouldn’t be even if circumstances were horrific.
So how can a bankrupt nation just keep on spending? At some point when the music stops a bunch will be left without a chair..
These leftist are baiting and rolling out the red carpet for millions of illegal aliens with their litters of kids.
We could try it on Mars.
On Earth the “benefits” never go away, they just get piled on top of other benefits.
Let Romney pay for it from Bain Capital / Ukrainian funds.
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Romney wants more kids so they can recruited to Mormonism.
And Romney is championing the Return to Bush and Bush disciples.
The Republican Party think that’s where they need to go.
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No. It traps people in dependence and is guaranteed to lead to increased payouts to guarantee liberal votes.
I personally wouldn’t sign on to a new program to get rid
of a programs that has to be addressed.
Shuffling the name of the programs around, and spending the
same amount of money is not the goal.
We need to get that massive boondoggle under control.
About 75% of it should cease to exist.
You are joking, yes?
No, universal basic income is not a conservative position.
“would a universal basic income in exchange for removing all other welfare programs be a tenable conservative position?”
It was proposed by Professor Milton Friedman in his 1962 book “Capitalism and Freedom”. The hard part is removing all other welfare programs, which the Rats will never agree to do.
As my wife and I do not have nor ever have had kids, I object unless the parents are neutered prior to receiving funds.
Its being done on purpose.
They want the system to break.
Everything they are doing is attempting to in one or more ways, break the system.
Socialsits want chaos, it allows them to do horrible things and rationalize them away due to extreme circumstances. And also paint their enemies as the reasons for the extreme circumstances so they can rationalize executing them.
“would a universal basic income in exchange for removing all other welfare programs be a tenable conservative position? “
Not really. The dems would just say - thanks for the support - and implement universal income in addition to all other welfare programs.
The left is about to implement some serious socialist programs. Our side has to educate the public on the pain caused by socialism for each and every family and defend capitalism.
would a universal basic income in exchange for removing all other welfare programs be a tenable conservative position?
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A “conservative position
would be to abolish all unconstitutional welfare in all its forms. Taxing some and giving it to others is not a conservative position it’s a communist/socialist position.
“The Republican Party think that’s where they need to go.”
Dead End Kid$, they are.
Pretty soon the dollar won’t be worth a a monopoly dollar.
Venezuela, here we come!
“would a universal basic income in exchange for removing all other welfare programs be a tenable conservative position?”
Yes, except it would not stay that way. And, that is the catch. The demonrats would say, “Group x need a little more. Or why don’t we do this or that” The only way it works is if the program is set in stone. The demonrats would add the programs back.
Here is another one. Give every child of US CITIZENS, $1000.00 in a mutual funds linked to the SS&P 500. The only caveat, no withdrawal until age 65. At age 65 you’d retire, assuming the historic 11% growth of the S&P 500, $1,156,812.00. Abolish Social Security.
“You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food.
When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. At first they are scared, but when they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.
They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.
The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”
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