Posted on 09/17/2023 8:04:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the U.S. child poverty rate was a ‘disgrace” that should be addressed with a child tax credit.
Anchor Jake Tapper said, “New numbers out this week show that child poverty in the U.S. more than doubled in the last year from 5% to 12%, 1 in 8 American children. This comes after Congress let that pandemic-era enhanced tax credit expire. Do you think it should be put back, and who do you blame for the disappearance? Because that was not just Republicans.”
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When I was a child decades ago, I was always broke and so were my friends.
Allow millions of illegal invaders to flood the country—and then cry about child poverty...
Sanders is despicable.
Isn’t that also the earned income credit? What more do they want? I am so sick of people wanting everything given to them.
Shut up you senile old commie!
How many child tax credits does anybody need ?
This and the “EITC” and “Child and Dependent Care” and “American Opportunity Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit” and “Adoption Credit and Adoption Assistance Programs”
This current CTC is scheduled to revert to a $1,000 credit after 2025
What’s obscene is that he doesn’t have room in any of his three (that we know of) luxury homes for some impoverished children, or, for that matter, “migrants.”
Bidenomics, Comrade.
Hey Berne. You're the guys importing millions of 3rd world children into our country. What did you think that was going to do to the "child poverty rate"?
You guys should import a better class of "children"...
a tax credit does very little when you’re not bringing much to start with
wages would be higher if we didn’t have downward pressure from all the illegals we flooded the country with
How many houses does this fake socialist own now?
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