Child Tax Credit sparks debate: Should it have a work requirement? - CBS News
Un f'n believable! Employers can't get folks to work now, and then this? Lots of eateries/small businesses/etc are going out of business becasue they can't get workers. There's a huge shortage of school bus drivers throught the country. But let's give more people FREE MONEY so they don't have to work either.
This is insanity, pure and simple. If the GOP can't take back the House and Senate next year, our country will be bankrupt before Biden's term ends. When businesses have to shut their doors for lack of workers, that just means a whole lot MORE folks who HAVE been working will now be unemployed. Things will spiral downward pretty rapidly if that happens.
Why in the hell can't Dems/Libs use their BRAIN once in awhile. We have a huge problem with people not wanting to work NOW - but hell, let's just make it even WORSE! You have to wonder if these idiots really ARE Marxists hell bent on destroying our country.
God help us.
/old fart rant over
Edit: There's lots more in the article that will turn your stomach. Well worth the read.
Quote:
. . . a debate is arising over President Joe Biden's plan to extend the CTC through 2025, with some questioning whether the payments could be a tipping point that convinces parents to drop out of the workforce.
Among them is University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, an expert on poverty and social safety net programs. His new analysis of the program estimates that as many as 1.5 million parents could leave the workforce due to the payments, or about 2.6% of all working parents.
Meyer's research comes on the heels of a suggestion from Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, that the expanded tax credit should include a work requirement. Under the American Rescue Plan, the CTC was expanded from $2,000 per child to as much as $3,600 per child, with half of the credit arriving in the form of monthly checks from July through December 2021. Parents don't need to work to receive the tax credit and its monthly payments. It's an entitlement based on family income.
Un f'n believable! Employers can't get folks to work now, and then this? Lots of eateries/small businesses/etc are going out of business becasue they can't get workers. There's a huge shortage of school bus drivers throught the country. But let's give more people FREE MONEY so they don't have to work either.
This is insanity, pure and simple. If the GOP can't take back the House and Senate next year, our country will be bankrupt before Biden's term ends. When businesses have to shut their doors for lack of workers, that just means a whole lot MORE folks who HAVE been working will now be unemployed. Things will spiral downward pretty rapidly if that happens.
Why in the hell can't Dems/Libs use their BRAIN once in awhile. We have a huge problem with people not wanting to work NOW - but hell, let's just make it even WORSE! You have to wonder if these idiots really ARE Marxists hell bent on destroying our country.
God help us.
/old fart rant over
Edit: There's lots more in the article that will turn your stomach. Well worth the read.