The most striking proposals were for the elimination of medical debt for millions of Americans; the “first-ever” ban on price gouging for groceries and food; a cap on prescription drug costs; a $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers; and a child tax credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby’s life.
No. It’s basically a continuation of the child tax credit that the republicans killed. It lifted half of kids out of poverty that were in poverty and it was a very very popular covid relief program.
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Yeah, you simply reduce your defense budget by 0.0001%
Yes, you see… i want the taxes I pay to go to helping people. We could instead, say, stop giving as much to the DoD. We could raise taxes on corporations and close off shore loopholes… you know, basic good governance.
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Why not both?
Society benefits from children not growing up in extreme poverty.
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Making things cheaper doesn’t help people in extreme poverty who have no money.
Giving them money does!
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Extreme poverty is caused by a lack of income, not by the cost of living.
Investing in our children is not to fight today’s poverty, but tomorrow’s. We need to give all children a good start and the potential to develop into a healthy part of a strong society. The goal is for them to break the cycle of poverty rather than go around again
That’s just an opinion, not an argument.
It literally is. Study after study proves just giving people money with no strings attached gives massive benefits for essentially no net cost.
https://college.unc.edu/2021/03/universal-basic-income/
The fact that you don’t know this proves you either ignore this, or don’t search anything to confirm you’re correct.
Why not both? Both choices are an investment in our future, which I’m all for. It’s just a minor difference whether we’re investing in something concrete or something more squishy
I’ll pay for it. Gladly. Even though I won’t benefit. Ever hear of the old saying about old men planting trees whose shade they’ll never sit in?
That money gets put right back into the economy. Tax breaks for wealthy people gets offshored where it won’t help the economy.
You say “buying votes with taxpayer money”
I say: “Literally listening to the middle, lower, and working poor and doing what they want.”
The child tax credit never should have been stopped because it lifted kids out of poverty and poverty is the number one cause of crime.
It’s not meant to help the long term cost, only the first year cost. After that, there’s the usual $2k or $3k or year or whatever it ends up being after good ones expire
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