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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

As former President Donald Trump's new running mate, JD Vance, faces renewed scrutiny over his previous comments criticizing childless individuals, an unearthed 2021 interview shows the Ohio senator advocating for higher taxes on Americans without children.

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The comments came in a 2021 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show podcast, where Kirk, the CEO of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, was discussing how Republicans could shift public perception of certain conservative ideas from "unthinkable" to accepted policy.

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"So JD ... what are you going to do to change this conversation? Everything we have to do should be about moving ideas from unthinkable, to sensible, to popular, to policy," said Kirk, according to a video of the interview obtained by ABC News.

In response, Vance, who at the time had not yet officially launched his 2022 Senate campaign, suggested that the country needed to "reward the things that we think are good" and "punish the things that we think are bad" -- before suggesting that individuals without children should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-07-30 02:19 AM | Reply

Waging a war on people without kids is sure to capture the youth vote! /s

We should be more worried about crazy fundamentalists that have traded in their sex organs for clown cars that pop out a kid a year for 10 years or more.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2024-07-30 08:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

individuals without children should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children

I guess Vladimir Futon doesn't know about the child and dependent tax credit or (way back when) dependent exemptions.

Dumbass fits in perfectly with the low iq stable jenius.

There are two reasons why people don't have children and both of them are none of you ------- business couch ------.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-30 08:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"If you are making $100,000, $400,000 a year and you've got three kids, you should pay a different, lower tax rate than if you are making the same amount of money and you don't have any kids. It's that simple."

That's what he said. It seems like an affirmation of what we already do.

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2024-07-30 09:13 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Sounds like a commie to me.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2024-07-30 09:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm telling ya... republicl0wms love them some slave laws.

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-07-31 10:10 AM | Reply

Don't Democrats support tax credits for parents?

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-07-31 10:17 AM | Reply

"Don't Democrats support tax credits for parents?"

Don't you know parents ALREADY GET tax credits?

What do you think the child tax credit is? How about the earned income credit? What about the American opportunity credit? Or tax free dependent care benefits?

All child-rearing benefits, meaning the childless ALREADY PAY more income tax on the same income.

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-07-31 10:28 AM | Reply

Don't you know parents ALREADY GET tax credits?
- Danforth

So you support Vance's position?

Now we're just arguing the number?

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-07-31 10:35 AM | Reply

There's already enough tax breaks for people with kids.
Those of us that don't have kids don't need to subsidize their decisions which tax our resources.
I'd be fine with limiting tax breaks to 2 kids. Anything over that the parents receive no tax benefits.

#10 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-31 10:43 AM | Reply

And Vance's position of giving a parent more voting power because they have more kids?
He can shove that idea up his ...

#11 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-31 10:44 AM | Reply

Single people have been paying higher taxes for years, idiot.

#12 | Posted by morris at 2024-07-31 12:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I no longer believe anything Dems an the media claim or say about others. They have become experts at deceit and stretching truth. They either made themselves that way or others in their little cabal have done it for them. But it is unacceptable. Or is this what happens when they create an atmosphere of using perverts to mock the religion or beliefs of others and /or because they have no inherent internal ethical beliefs?

#13 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-31 12:30 PM | Reply

So his incentive for more Americans having children is to make it harder for Americans to afford to have children. Less money for saving up, buying a home...

#14 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2024-07-31 12:33 PM | Reply

There already is a higher tax rate on those without children.

#15 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-07-31 12:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I no longer believe anything Dems an the media claim or say about others.

Damn those Dems! They quote the actual words and the even do it in context!!

#16 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-31 01:14 PM | Reply

Make it bigger and with an income cap for eligibility. It will predominately benefit poor families.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-31 01:16 PM | Reply

The cuts for those with kids that is.

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-31 01:16 PM | Reply

"I no longer believe anything Dems an the media claim or say about others"

Have you ever supplied a link or reference to ANY of your lies?

You can't because no one here would accept the RT news as a valid news source. Or Fixed News (who also get their talking points from Moscow apparently).

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-31 01:52 PM | Reply

#13 | POSTED BY ROBSON

Your candidate is literally a lying sack of ----.

You're pathetic.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-07-31 02:42 PM | Reply

Poor Robson, don't you ever get tired of the BS Republican's spout. They don't even bother with good lies. Total lack of respect for their dumb/ignorant/evil followers.

The unholy amalgam of the Klan, Opus Dei/Federalist Society, and Evangelical heretics will not take this country down the path of Hitler's Germany. You all remind me of pre-war Japan/Germany. You think you are so tough and that the American public with just let you do what you wish. I think that you will be unpleasantly surprised at the degree of resistance your American Empire will encounter.

There is a man down my street flying our flag upside down. I wonder if he has decided which of us, his neighbors, he is going to murder first?

Do you plan to kill our dogs, cats, and children when you murder us undesirables. I am sure that Jesus will be so pleased with you killing in his name so that his chosen one and his descendants can be President of the United States forever. You will never have to vote again right, they are going to fix things so you do not need to.

Do your children, spouse, and / or friends, if you have any of those things, know that you are part of this cabal that is planning to overthrow our government so that they can build a "christian" kingdom with Trump as its head?

Have you decided which of your neighbors you will murder for him? What do you plan to do with their pets and children? If you kill them for Trump, do you get to keep their stuff? Will you kill your children for him if they are liberal? Your spouse, brother/sister, your parents? Who will your sacrifice to your god king?

What do they think about that? Maybe you should talk to someone sane before you find yourself guarding a death camp. You will have to murder about 100 million people to get your way and reformat this country into a Theocracy under Trump, and that takes a lot of work.

Have you looked at Project2025?

That is your future if Trump wins. Not mine, I will never live to see it. I'm an undesirable. A married gay man. They will come for me early in the campaign, before the atheists and other religious minorities, and well before the racial minorities which will likely fall in reverse order of size. I wonder how long it will take before they turn on each other and start to burn the heretics like in the good old days in Europe.

Anyone know if they plan to kill divorcees or just force them back into their original marriages? What happens to umm, complex families? Are all children of 2nd+ marriages going to be bastards going forward?

Did you know that all sex is forbidden except for the purpose of having as many children as possible? No more --------, ----, or BJs for you. And no porn! Thanks Opus Dei.

Are you afraid in your own home? I am now, thanks.

#21 | Posted by Killjoy at 2024-07-31 03:47 PM | Reply

I no longer believe anything Dems an the media claim or say about others. They have become experts at deceit and stretching truth.

He's literally on video saying these exact words in his kitchen, you absolutely stupid ----.

#22 | Posted by JOE at 2024-07-31 04:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"There is a man down my street flying our flag upside down. "

You should call the local sheriff and have him do a welfare check. An upside down flag is a signal of distress. Perhaps someone in the home is in danger and is signaling for help.

Someone in authority should check in on the family. Maybe call in a swat team just in case.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-31 04:39 PM | Reply

Da penguin army is coming outa the covents to vote against this sodomite convert.

#24 | Posted by Tor at 2024-07-31 05:40 PM | Reply

Single and zero deductions isn't enough?

#25 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-07-31 09:18 PM | Reply

unless, of course, those non-child having adults are rich...
well then...

#26 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-08-01 09:42 AM | Reply

Guess who didn't show up to vote to expand the child tax credit today.

#27 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-08-01 08:05 PM | Reply

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