•

Kamala Harris unveils populist policy agenda, with $6,000 credit for newborns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/16/kamala-harris-2024-policy-child-tax-credit/

The vice president’s speech on Friday is expected to reflect her most thorough articulation yet of her economic priorities.

The most striking proposals were for the elimination of medical debt for millions of Americans; the “first-ever” ban on price gouging for groceries and food; a cap on prescription drug costs; a $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers; and a child tax credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby’s life.

100 comments

See all comments

Mathazzar

•

Yes, you see.. i want the taxes I pay to go to helping people. We could instead, say, stop giving as much to the DoD. We could raise taxes on corporations and close off shore loopholes.. you know, basic good governance.

BlackLaZoR

•

i want the taxes I pay to go to helping people

I generally agree with this, but I'd rather see government spending my money on infrastructure, like roads, power plants, research ect. so everyone benefits instead of giving it away for free.

snooggums

•

Why not both?

Society benefits from children not growing up in extreme poverty.

BlackLaZoR

•

Society benefits from children not growing up in extreme poverty

True, but giving money for free isn't a proper way of fighting with poverty. The proper way would be introducing reforms that make housing, healthcare and education fundamentally cheaper. That would be effective at fixing the very causes that make people impoverished

snooggums

•

Making things cheaper doesn't help people in extreme poverty who have no money.

Giving them money does!

BlackLaZoR

•

Making things cheaper doesn't help people in extreme poverty who have no money.

They have no money, because everything they need to live, is expensive!!!

snooggums

•

Extreme poverty is caused by a lack of income, not by the cost of living.

BlackLaZoR

•

Extreme poverty

People who have no job and no income at all, shouldn't make children they can't support - this is a horrible pathology 6k USD can't possibly solve

snooggums

•

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but you squandered it.

A ton of kids in poverty were not born into poverty, but their parents lost jobs or had health emergencies or parents who died. A lot of parents didn't choose to become pregnant, because birth control isn't perfect. Some kids are in extreme poverty because the parent without the job leaft due to domestic violence.

And sometimes kids end up in poverty because a natural disaster made the family homeless and they lost their job becsuse the business was also halted due to the disaster.

Blaming the parents casts a huge net and carches a lot of people who had shit come up in the 18 years between birth and adulthood.

AA5B

•

It wasn’t the child’s choice to be born into poverty, however that came about. That money is to give the child a fighting chance to become a contributing member of society, regardless of its circumstances.

AA5B

•

Investing in our children is not to fight today’s poverty, but tomorrow’s. We need to give all children a good start and the potential to develop into a healthy part of a strong society. The goal is for them to break the cycle of poverty rather than go around again

JamesFire

•

True, but giving money for free isn’t a proper way of fighting with poverty.

It literally is. Study after study proves just giving people money with no strings attached gives massive benefits for essentially no net cost.

https://college.unc.edu/2021/03/universal-basic-income/

The fact that you don't know this proves you either ignore this, or don't search anything to confirm you're correct.

lolcatnip

•

That's just an opinion, not an argument.

AA5B

•

Why not both? Both choices are an investment in our future, which I’m all for. It’s just a minor difference whether we’re investing in something concrete or something more squishy