Posted on 11/08/2017 1:24:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
On the other hand, there are many foster children who a very badly treated by their adopted family. That system is broken very badly.
Everything the feral government touches becomes astronomically expensive and turns to excrement.
The GOP Establishment wants to kill Trump at any cost.
They HAVE killed their own party instead.
Here is the problem. If you want a simplified tax code and lower tax rates then that necessarily requires the elimination of many individual deductions. Every single deduction in the tax code is a sacred cow to someone.
We have adopted three times. Yes, we used the adoption tax credit. However, agency and attorney fees went up dramatically to match the tax credit increases in our cases. A net financial gain still, but not by as much as you would think.
Reducing the red tape (three or more attorneys are routinely involved in every adoption, and a home study can cost several thousands of dollars) and removing some of the disincentives to adoption from the big social welfare NGOs would be even more welcome.
We gotta fund abortion but allowing Americans a tax credit to raise adopted children is too expensive.
The GOP could pay for this tax credit by eliminating PP’s subsidy. But it won’t do that.
Its not called the Stupid Party for nothing.
We really should be considering the promotion of DOMESTIC adoption and the support of Orphanages if we are going to do battle with abortion rights advocates.
If a teenage pregnant girl or a pregnant rape victim cannot afford or does not want to be the mother of the baby, I cannot think of a better argument to counter the pro-abortionists than to day that there are thousands of women waiting to adopt babies and if you do not want to be the mother of the baby, others are willing to be.
But this repeal of the adoption tax credit is NOT HELPING.
We really should be considering the promotion of DOMESTIC adoption and the support of Orphanages if we are going to do battle with abortion rights advocates.
If a teenage pregnant girl or a pregnant rape victim cannot afford or does not want to be the mother of the baby, I cannot think of a better argument to counter the pro-abortionists than to day that there are thousands of women waiting to adopt babies and if you do not want to be the mother of the baby, others are willing to be.
But this repeal of the adoption tax credit is NOT HELPING.
I don’t know....Maybe stop overseas adoption UNLESS its from your native country.
The GOPe is true to form: totally tone deaf and cruel.
I’m not so sure. Perhaps families who can afford to adopt children without subsidies would be better for the children in the long and short run. Welfare-like funding always seem to be scammed.
The Stupid Party (R) is going to eliminate deductibility of alimony.
If so, I’ll quit working.
Go Galt! REPUBLICANS will make it so.
“We’re past the point of wondering whether the GOP wants to lose. The question now is whether they deserve to lose. Judging from this account by Haley Byrd of the IJR, all signs point to yes.”
No. The real question many of us are asking is whether they deserve a public execution. Different question. Same answer.
OTOH, there are a whole LOT of now no longer deductibles, such as this one, that are in this POS proposition, that shouldn't be.
They COULD add the deduction as a line item after the selection of Standard or Itemized deductions.
They won’t.
But some deductions should be on top of the Standard deduction. Just like they do with the POTUS Campaign funding.
Foster children are NOT adopted; they are like “renters” as opposed to owners. Some children who once were FOSTER children, do get adopted, though.
HORSESHIT!
If you want to get angry at the GOP about tax deductions, then get angry with them for not having the balls to lower all taxes with a lower fixed universal flat tax applicable to everyone with zero deductions, exclusions, exemptions or credits. Most people will come out no worse than in the present system of higher taxes offset by a maize of deductions, exclusions, exemptions and credits. Everyone, including all the unemployed tax accountants would have lower and simple tax a school kid could figure out on April 14th: income times tax rate = tax, period.
But the GOPe does not have the gonads to revolt 100% from the Progressives’ tax system of social and economic engineering. Why? There is too many votes to by by promising to exchange whose ox is being gored to whose ox will not be gored. There would be no such political payola in a universal flat tax system.
Only women?
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