Schumer's Summer Parting Gift to Vulnerable Dems

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Senate Republicans are likely to vote against a bipartisan tax package later this week that would extend an expanded version of the Child Tax Credit. -- a Democratic priority.

Posted by LampLighter at 10:31 PM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink

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... While a few Senate Republicans have signaled support for the package, it is almost certainly going die due to a lack of GOP votes when Schumer seeks to advance it before the Senate breaks Thursday for its August recess. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-30 07:23 PM

Wait, what?

Hasn't Sen Vance, now GOP VP candidate Vance, said that people with children should pay less in taxes?

So, why do Republicans in Congress seem to be against the child-tax credit?

J.D. Vance Says Childless Americans Should Pay Higher Taxes. They Already Do.
reason.com

... Donald Trump's running mate has discovered the most politically toxic way to demand the status quo. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-30 07:26 PM

@#2 ... Hasn't Sen Vance, now GOP VP candidate Vance, said that people with children should pay less in taxes?

So, why do Republicans in Congress seem to be against the child-tax credit? ...

I can't wait to see how the GOP folk try to rationalize this.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-30 11:56 PM

@#2 ... Hasn't Sen Vance, now GOP VP candidate Vance, said that people with children should pay less in taxes?

So, why do Republicans in Congress seem to be against the child-tax credit? ...

Because that money is better spent on billionaires.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-31 08:12 AM

" I can't wait to see how the GOP folk try to rationalize this."

Especially since folks with kids already get HUGE tax breaks:

Child Tax Credit
Earned Income Credit
American Opportunity Credit
Additional Child Tax Credit
Tax-Free Dependent Benefits

... ALL of these are child-rearing credits, funded in large part by the childless.

And I haven't even begun to talk about my property taxes sending other people's kids to school.

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-07-31 10:21 AM

You can't go by anything Vance says. He's a mistake. An unvetted mistake pushed on Trump by a former mega-doner, ($1.25 million) Peter Thiel, in exchange for Thiel's financial support which has yet to materialize, according to recent reports.

It's possible that Trump just got played for a fool.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-07-31 11:41 PM

Trump is now trying to explain away his bad judgment regarding Vance by saying "Traditionally, the V.P. choice has no effect on the outcome of the election."

Apparently, that logic does not apply to President Biden's choice of Kamla Harris.

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-07-31 11:51 PM

I think this is a brilliant move by Schumer. Let Vance and Republicans show us how much they care about families. He should schedule a vote on stuff like this every week until November.

What's funny will be when Republicans start complaining about Congress inserting itself into the Presidential election, as if they haven't been saying for 20 years that hard-knuckle politics are just a part of life. Now that Dems are making some flailing attempt at it, suddenly the Jeff types will need a fainting couch.

#8 | Posted by Joe at 2024-08-01 12:12 AM

"flailing?"

That's an understatement.

#9 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-01 05:31 AM

Is it? They're about to take a 5-week recess. If Dems took this strategy seriously they'd make everyone stay and demonstrate how anti-family Vance and the Republicans are.

#10 | Posted by JOE at 2024-08-01 10:32 AM

They don't get to stay at all if they don't leave to defend their seats in Congress.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-01 10:37 AM

Then start allowing and requiring remote voting, and continue embarrassing Republicans all summer long. This isn't impossible.

#12 | Posted by JOE at 2024-08-01 10:40 AM

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