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Re: Manchin Complained That Parents Waste Child Tax Credits on Drugs, Says Report

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And to can a programme because some people (and doubtless a small minority) misuse it means you are denying the benefits to the people who need it and spend the money as they are meant to.

I understand the point that some people abuse these sorts of programmes. But the solution to that is to build in checks to minimise abuse, not to harm the genuinely vulnerable.

It's just lazy, cynical brutallism from Manchin. My least favourite feature of the US political landscape.




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Manchin Complained That Parents Waste Child Tax Credits on Drugs, Says Report
By: clo2
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Mon, 20 Dec 21 5:52 PM
Msg. 44213 of 54959

What a creep.
This tax credit has brought millions of children out of poverty!

Manchin Complained That Parents Waste Child Tax Credits on Drugs, Says Report

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) delivered a hammer blow to President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better spending package Sunday, announcing on Fox News that he couldn’t vote for it because he thinks it’s too expensive. However, according to HuffPost, Manchin was heard in Congress discussing another problem he has with Biden’s domestic spending plan—that it would give low-income parents money that they might waste on drugs. Two unnamed sources said to be familiar with the alleged comments told the site that the senator was heard speculating that parents might buy drugs with monthly child tax credit payments instead of providing for their kids. He is also reported to have said that Americans might fake an illness to claim paid sick leave to go on hunting trips. According to HuffPost, Manchin’s purported comments “shocked several senators.” His office declined to comment on HuffPost’s report.

Read it at HuffPost
http://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-manchin-complained-that-parents-waste-child-tax-credits-on-drugs-says-report?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition


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