Posted on 05/19/2021 4:21:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The check won’t arrive until mid-July, but Katrina Peters already knows what she’ll do with her Child Tax Credit payments. The 20-year-old mother of three has applied to work as a driver with a food delivery app, and the extra cash is earmarked for repairing, registering and insuring her car.
“I just need to make sure it’s 100% and then I can start working and get an income,” Peters said, cradling her 3-week-old son, Armani. “That’s where it starts.”
The payments are a key part of Democrats’ COVID-19 aid bill passed in March, but for policymakers they are more than just an attempt to help families recover from the pandemic. The monthly checks of up to $300 per child for millions of families are part of an ambitious attempt to shrink child poverty and rethink the American social safety net in the process.
With an emphasis on direct, no-strings cash support, the payments are a deliberate departure from a system that for decades has tried to control how Americans spend their government assistance by funneling it to food, housing or child care. Peters is as free to use the cash on her car as she is to spend it on diapers.
The expanded CTC payments, which are due to begin going out July 15, are only meant to last a year, but architects and proponents aren’t trying to hide the fact that they want to make this permanent. The coronavirus pandemic, they say, laid bare the inadequacies of America’s support system and provided the political momentum to make lasting changes.
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What is there to say?
They’re assuming the parents will actually spend the money on the kids, not themselves.
No. Just make it worse.
No. The *parents* will spend it on themselves, just like virtually every welfare family I have ever met.
Pizza Hut used to offer a personal pan pizza to kids for completely a reading program and the dead beat parents would take the pizza the kid earned for reading and eat it themselves.
At that point, Pizza Hut made it a requirement that the kid eats the pizza at the restaurant. They would not allow take out for the reading program pizzas for the kids.
What makes the idiots think the $$$ will go to the children?
“What makes the idiots think the $$$ will go to the children?”
Lottery tickets, weed, Newports, and alcohol.
Not if mama spends it on crack and Coach.
$300 a month is not going to fix anything. You will read stories like this and the person in the article will ALWAYS have that thing that just needs a little more to get them the break they need.
For God’s sake, it’s like listening to drug addicts. Deliverance is always just around the corner.
“$300 a month is not going to fix anything.”
There is no existing welfare program that will pay for beer or booze.
Welfare is not generally available to pay for cars or auto insurance.
Welfare is not available to pay for cable TV as far as I know(unless included in the apartment rent).
Welfare is not available to pay for vacations in Paris, Rome or any other foreign hot spot.
“Newports”
I’ve been forgetting about having the federal government pay for cigarettes.
I'm going to guess this isn't a result of accidental triplets. How much do you want to bet the three kids have at least two, probably three different fathers? This situation is not the result of good decision making nor learning from your mistakes.
“I just need to make sure it’s 100% and then I can start working and get an income,”
Certain people always have an excuse. "I just need XYZ and then I can get a job or get off drugs, get ..." There's always something. It may sound cold, but I've made enough trips around the sun to realize there simply is no helping some people. The more you help, the more they continue to not learn the hard lesson, the more they continue to make bad decisions - because they are ok with the consequences and your bailing them out.
"The payments are a key part of Democrats’ ... With an emphasis on direct, no-strings cash support..."
No strings attached - just vote democrat. Giving away my resources (I am a taxpayer, apparently an increasingly rare demographic these days) to people who have demonstrated the inability to make good choices and take care of themselves and the people they are responsible for. If you support consequence-free living, then these people are going to continue to make bad decisions with little or no regard for the potential consequences of their actions and decisions - because someone else will always come along and bail them out - with my money.
The money is going into more irresponsible behavior: get drunk or drugged, make more babies without a Daddy or a single chance in life, more confused children on Father’s Day.
When is enough enough??? Sliding into socialism through the back door
$300 a month is nothing when it comes to childcare
Newports have been banned
Lots of people think we should encourage having more children.
The problem of poverty was solved back in 1964 with Lyndon Johnson’s WAR ON POVERTY program.
So why is poverty still a problem now?
Will it even reduce poverty as the government counts it? So many programs don’t count when calculating the poverty rate, so if someone is just barely below the poverty line and then gets all sorts of free stuff (food stamps, Medicaid, section 8 housing, etc.) she is still just as poor as ever. It is hard to get a straight answer as to what counts outher than earned income from a job in calculating poverty.
Just a short time ago, Pres. Trump showed the way to reduce childhood poverty.
It can potentially double cartel revenues - and their contributions to US politicians - so...hey! Let’s try it! /s
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