Manchin and the GOP smear the poor to avoid helping them

[Nevilledog]

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Noah Berlatsky
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At @johnastoehr 's Editorial Board, I wrote about the Child Tax Credit. Ending it threw millions of children into poverty. That is horrible. And it shows, without any wiggle room, that giving families money alleviates poverty.

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Manchin and the GOP smear the poor to avoid helping them
Cash payments lift kids out of poverty. To the rightwing, though, that can’t be. The poor are poor, because they deserve their poverty.
11:33 AM · Mar 8, 2022

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Following the expiration of the Child Tax Credit on December 15, millions of children plunged back into poverty. Child poverty rates ballooned from 12 to 17 percent in January.

That’s the highest rate since December 2020, before the credit was passed as part of the American Rescue Plan Act last March.

Conservatives claim government “handouts” create dependency and exacerbate the problems they attempt to redress. But the immediate increase in poverty shows how successful the Child Tax Credit was.

Joe Manchin said the Child Tax Credit was helping the undeserving. He insisted it include a work requirement, because he thought that people who received payments were dropping out of the workforce. He reportedly opposed renewal because he worried that parents would use the extra money to buy drugs.

It’s clear evidence that giving money to those most in need is the simplest, most direct way to alleviate poverty.

The name “Child Tax Credit” sounds like a complicated technical tax abatement. In fact, though, the program is basically straightforward cash distribution.

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[Bev54]

1. If Manchin's theory was true then I would expect the Unemployed figures

would be quite a bit higher but then none of his objections (which he adds new ones to daily) make any sense unless you look at it that he is being bought off.

[Firestorm49]

2. Of course. No aid for the needy, but tax cuts for those who need

it the least. God, I hate Republicans.

[hamsterjill]

3. If anyone still has any doubts about where Manchin's loyalty lies...

It isn’t with Democrats. Anyone who thinks he isn’t bought and paid for just isn’t seeing facts in front of them.

Perfect example here

[lindysalsagal]

4. "Blame the victim" has been on the GQP hit parade for so long because it works.

Even the poor don't think they're poor if they identify with these haters.

[BGBD]

5. Keep hitting the guy

That is the only reason KBJ is going to get a vote in the Senate.

If his seat went to an R, Mitch would just block the confirmation for the next 3 years.

But go on with the bashing and see if you can get your wish.

[Probatim]

6. There are 49 republican senators who are against this - and the Democratic senator is singled out.

It's horseshit and needs to be identified as such.

[Mad_Machine76]

7. I agree

but it's still noteworthy that he- an erstwhile Democrat- is aligned with the bad people on this.