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Abortion has been imposed on America by judges and not by the legislative branch which has never been allowed to have a straight up or down abortion approval law.
Given that, one would think the House would propose legislation removing abortion as an allowable deduction and would write into the law a rejection of judicial review.
If conservatives ever gain the presidency and fool proof majorities in House and Senate they should immediately make abortion illegal....or at least remove it as an allowable tax deduction.
It takes a whole lot of medical expenses before any of them count towards the allowable medical deduction. Thanks Obamacare.
If someone goes on a killing spree, do they get to deduct the bullets?
If you want less of something, then tax it.
If you want more of something, ie abortion, then make it deductible.
So you can get a tax deduction for an abortion but the IRS does not yet have the forms for deducting state sales tax on your 1040...as I found out the other day when I was doing my tax penance on TurboTax. The program said the IRS has not yet decided policy about that item so the forms are not yet available. Doesn’t stop them from coming after you if you are a minute late filing taxes though, does it?
So now I suppose that if I want to make that admittedly small adjustment to my federal taxes I will have to file an amendment...if the forms ever become available. Needless to say, I’m not holding my breath!
Do births, likewise, get a tax deduction?
Choose life.
Amen!
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Does the mother need to get a social security number for the murdered baby in order to list it as a dependent?
Will it be able to vote democrat upon reaching the date when it would have been 18 years old?
On a practical note, this is probably a non-issue.
Medical expenses are only deductible to the extent that they exceed 10% of adjusted gross income. Assume the person getting the abortion is a single woman earning $20,000/year, she can only deduct medical expenses to the extent that they exceed $2,000. If an abortion is her only medical expense, then she clearly won’t be allowed a deduction for the cost of an abortion.
Secondly, a person can deduct the greater of their itemized deductions or the standard deduction. For a single person, the standard deduction for 2013 was $6,100. Even if a woman’s medical expenses exceeded 10% of her adjusted gross income (and, remember, only that excess can be deducted), she will have to have other itemized deductions to push her over $6,100 in order to benefit from that limited medical expenses.
So, an interesting talking point, but, as a practical matter, mostly meaningless.
Most of the American people can’t deduct for abotions because they can’t meet the now 10 percent threshold of Line 33 for medical expenses to kick in.
