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.
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.
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.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to tax and spend for INTRAstate family issues and a lot of other intrastate issues that the corrupt feds are now considering taking away deductions for.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Ultimately depending on what the legal majority voters of a given state want, the states would be able to provide adoption deductions, or an equivalent, if the feds weren't stealing state revenues through unconstitutional federal taxes.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
John Ossoff’s body double is an idiot
If The GOP Repeals The Adoption Tax Credit The Party Should Disband
Really? That’s where you draw the line?
A tax credit is not a deduction,
it is theft that hurts children.