I’ve been horrifyingly busy to the point I haven’t had time to post at all. But Trump’s plan is Pro-Family and brilliant. I support it 100%, and I suspect many working class Freepers do too. Women ought to be incentivized to stay home and raise their children. At the moment, the only people having kids are illegal aliens, and their kids—based on demographics and voting— are little bastards who hate America. Real Americans ought to be encouraged to have children to offset this imbalance, or else we’ll be Mexico in 20 or 30 years.
As far as this not being “conservative.” I can’t imagine anything more conservative than something that is actually supporting the family. Our medical costs are insane, easily 2x to 4x what the Europeans are paying. The medical care industry has us by the balls and there is no plan that anyone is offering to get them to let go. We are not living in a Libertarian-Economic utopia over here, with Trump screwing it up by adding a tax cut for your medical care expenses. We’re living in America 2016 where everyone is trying their best to screw us.
As for the complaints people are having over the nature of this tax break— not being available to people making 250k or more: I can’t fathom a single reason why Trump should make himself vulnerable to attacks of “another tax break for the rich!” just to make ideologues feel better about tax fairness. On a political level, the fact it is for the middle and worker class is just a brilliant move. It wins these people over, pulls the rug from beneath the Democrats, and attracts women. On a practical level, someone making 250k per year has no need of a children’s tax break. These people aren’t the ones going broke from medical costs. Regular Americans are. Why give them something they don’t need just to satisfy some abstract economic ideology? We have bigger priorities to fight right now, and this plan helps solve real problems Americans are having.
I agree! Reward the working mothers and middle class families. More mothers working instead of staying home due to child care costs equal less people on food stamps and other government programs.
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“Women ought to be incentivized to stay home and raise their children.”
If that’s the goal why stop at 6 weeks, let’s incentivize them to stay home until their child is 18. 18 year maternity leave paid by business, very “pro-family”, right?
Oh wait, we already do that, it’s called welfare. And it didn’t work out too well.
Government social engineering always inevitably ends in disaster.
How would you do that? And what about divorced mothers?
As for the complaints people are having over the nature of this tax break— not being available to people making 250k or more: I can’t fathom a single reason why Trump should make himself vulnerable to attacks of “another tax break for the rich!” just to make ideologues feel better about tax fairness.
As a tax deduction it will not help the average working family at all because with current deductions and credits a very large percentage already pay no taxes. So what does another deduction do for them?
On a political level, the fact it is for the middle and worker class is just a brilliant move. It wins these people over, pulls the rug from beneath the Democrats, and attracts women.
Not when they realize it doesn't help them at all.
We have bigger priorities to fight right now, and this plan helps solve real problems Americans are having.
Not really, no.
Thank you. An expression of sanity.
The knee jerking was giving me gas.