Sen. Clinton: 400,000 New York families could be hurt by new tax law [forgets NYC tax increases]

Associated Press via Newsday ^ | June 3, 2003 | DEVLIN BARRETT

[LurkedLongEnough]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is pushing a Senate measure to give a $400-a-child tax credit to millions of low-income families not included in the recent $350 billion tax cut package.

Last month's tax cut increased the child credit from $600 to $1,000, but Democrats have been sharply critical of Republican tax-writers for leaving out families making between roughly $10,000 and $26,000.

Clinton, D-N.Y., said some 425,000 families in New York fall into that category, and over 800,000 children in the state would be affected. Nationwide, roughly 8 million children are affected, the senator said.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Huge tax and transportation increases in NYC are of no concern to her constituents, however.

[kevkrom]

As long as we have an income tax, it will be used as a social engineering tool by fools like Hillary. Someone needs to clue her in to the fact that people who have no tax liability don't get tax cuts. Duh.

[Howlin]

a $400-a-child tax credit to millions of low-income families not included in the recent $350 billion tax cut package.

Because they don't pay taxes!!!!

[TheDon]

They don't pay taxes.
The Demorats have already voted against a $400 bonus for these people.

[DManA]

No one's getting hurt. They are exactly in the same position they were in before the bill was signed.

If I don't send Hillary a check, am I hurting her?

[MayflowerMadam]

It's not our fault that the single moms and the single moms' sperm donors aren't taking responsibility for their own children. Why should we suffer because they can't control their animal instincts before they're capable of supporting offspring?

I don't have much faith in any tax-related ideas that Hillary comes up with. The taxes on our average house in rural New York state were $12,000/year. I don't think she's an expert in this field.

[Abe Froman]

"Clinton, D-N.Y., said some 425,000 families in New York fall into that category, and over 800,000 children in the state would be affected. Nationwide, roughly 8 million children are affected, the senator said."

So they're "affected" by not getting additional entitlements? Sounds to me that the only way they're "affected" is when they see other people keep more of their own money when they are not (because they already keep all of it!!)

[Orangedog]

It's not so much a bonus as it is a welfare check. And don't let the dims get away with the old "they pay social security taxes" lie either. The (un)Earned Income Tax Credit refunds all of that to them each and every year. Some even get back more than that amount as well when you figure the daycare credit and God knows whatever else these people continue to get at our expenses. "Working families" is the new code word for "non-taxpayers."

[Dilly]

I call bull on all the child tax credits. Not just the stupid on Hillary is proposing, but also the ones that have already been given and the whole concept altogether. Why should people who voluntarily choose to have children get preferential treatment? It was their choice to have children. If they can't afford it, then they shouldn't be having them. The government is going to collect a certain amount of taxes from the populace, and those who chose to have children shouldn't get to pay less someone who chose not to have children. Child tax credits are just another socialist income redistribution.

[goldstategop]

Dumber and dumber Hillary. For someone with supposed smarts, she forgets all those she wants to push a tax credit for don't pay ANY income taxes already. And now she wants to transfer more wealth from those who DO pay taxes. Yeah right. Its the first common-sense tax proposal I've heard in ages and even the RINOs originally killed it cause they knew how stupid it was. Its being revived not on the merits but simply to embarrass President Bush as looking out for the more fortunate.

[Mark]

I noticed that the libs have avoided the term "tax cuts" for those who don't pay taxes; but instead they respond with the term "tax benefit".

[Dutch Boy]

I think she is most worried that if some low income dem families start getting money back they may start voting GOP.

[Republican Wildcat]

If people who don't pay taxes are entitled to a tax cut, then I guess people who don't have children should also be able to get the child credit. It makes just as much sense.

[mewzilla]

Whoa, there...Not every single mom is that way by choice. Some were married and have had their husbands run out or die. Just something to keep in mind.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Dumber and dumber Hillary. For someone with supposed smarts, she forgets all those she wants to push a tax credit for don't pay ANY income taxes already. And now she wants to transfer more wealth from those who DO pay taxes.

If you only give tax cuts to those who pay taxes without also cutting the transfer expenses to those who don't, what happens? My answer is you take the money from the taxpayers later anyway, but through inflation rather than through taxes.

[BIGZ]

Lets see now. 400,000 have a problem, 20,000,000 in the state, take off one zero = 2,000,000 or 10%, 400,000 is about 2%. Just work the figures any way you wish.

My headline would be:

Bush's tax cut helps 98 % of the people in New York.

[The Old Hoosier]

Democrats have been sharply critical of Republican tax-writers for leaving out families making between roughly $10,000 and $26,000.

Such an utterly dishonest, bullsh!t way of saying "families who DON'T PAY TAXES."

[LurkedLongEnough]

Bush's tax cut helps 98 % of the people in New York.

EXACTLY.