GOP pushing for expanded child tax credit to increase refunds, include unborn children

HARK! · Jul 25, 2023

Republicans in Congress are proposing an expansion of the Child Tax Credit that would boost refunds and include credits for unborn children.

“By expanding the Child Tax Credit to include the unborn and provide additional relief to working families, empowering women to care for their babies and families regardless of socioeconomic status or ZIP code, and expanding access to community resources, we can protect the most vulnerable, make a meaningful difference for those in need, and strengthen all families,” Ms. Hinson said.

GOP pushing for expanded child tax credit to increase refunds, include unborn children

Republicans in Congress are proposing an expansion of the Child Tax Credit that would boost refunds and include credits for unborn children.

www.washingtontimes.com

Pommer · Jul 25, 2023

This will certainly cause “miscarriages” to skyrocket.

Hans Blaster · Jul 25, 2023

Wouldn't it just be easier to provide basic, free pre-natal care?

All of these silly "tax credit" schemes. SMH.

HARK! · Jul 25, 2023

Hans Blaster said:
Wouldn't it just be easier to provide basic, free pre-natal care?

All of these silly "tax credit" schemes. SMH.

How would that cover the other costs associated with pregnancy?

I'm still trying to find the law that requires the unconstitutional capita tax to begin with. SMH.

HARK! · Jul 25, 2023

Pommer said:
This will certainly cause “miscarriages” to skyrocket.

Certainly? What would lead you to that wild notion?

Hank77 · Jul 25, 2023

Pommer said:
This will certainly cause “miscarriages” to skyrocket.

Yay, how are they going to verify those pregnancies anyway? The unborn don't have SS#s as proof they exist.

Hans Blaster · Jul 25, 2023

HARK! said:
How would that cover the other costs associated with pregnancy?

I'm still trying to find the law that requires the unconstitutional capita tax to begin with. SMH.

This "tax credit" only provides a couple thousands dollars per child or something like that, right. Isn't that of a similar scale to the cost of pre-natal health care?

Not sure what "capita" tax you are talking about.

HARK! · Jul 25, 2023

Hans Blaster said:
Not sure what "capita" tax you are talking about.

This information was spread far and wide, long ago.

Yttrium · Jul 25, 2023

Hmm. This would help monitor the pregnancies, so any untimely end to the pregnancy could be identified and investigated...

Hans Blaster · Jul 25, 2023

HARK! said:
This information was spread far and wide, long ago.

Doesn't answer my question in the slightest as no one should have to watch a nearly 2-hour long video to get an answer to a simple question, so I will try again:

HARK! said:
I'm still trying to find the law that requires the unconstitutional capita tax to begin with. SMH.

What "capita tax" do you speak of here? (The OP speaks of a tax credit, not a tax.)

While were at it, what is a "capita tax"?

FireDragon76 · Jul 26, 2023

I guess they figure they have to have some kind of fig leaf over their draconian reproductive healthcare policies.

HARK! · Jul 26, 2023

Hans Blaster said:
What "capita tax" do you speak of here? (The OP speaks of a tax credit, not a tax.)

Without the tax, there is no tax credit.

Hans Blaster said:
While were at it, what is a "capita tax"?

Capita is Latin for "head." See Article 1 Section 9.

HARK! · Jul 26, 2023

FireDragon76 said:
I guess they figure they have to have some kind of fig leaf over their draconian reproductive healthcare policies.

What policies would those be?

Gene2memE · Jul 26, 2023

'Fetal heartbeat' policies.
Abortion bans with no exceptions for rape.
Abortion bans with no exceptions for non viable pregnancies.
Abortion bans with limited or no exceptions for maternal health.
Policies barring all gender affirming care.
Policies eliminating or reducing funding to Planned Parenthood and similar organisations.
Policies reducing access to Medicade family planning.
Policies reducing access to long acting contraception.
Policies mandating abstinence only sex education.
Policies aiming to criminalise accessing reproductive health care in other states.
Policies putting bounties on the reporting of reproductive health care activities, both patient and doctor side.
Policies mandating certain types of counselling for reproductive health care decisions.
Policies putting overly burdensome restrictions on the operations of reproductive health care clinics.

Those sorts of policies.

FireDragon76 · Jul 26, 2023

HARK! said:
Without the tax, there is no tax credit.

Capita is Latin for "head." See Article 1 Section 9.

I took 4 years of Latin (including reading the Aeneid by Virgil). Caput is the Latin word for head. Capital comes from the Latin adjective capitalis, which means "head, chief, principal". However, the etymology of a word doesn't necessarily correspond directly to the denotation of a word. "Capita" is not a word, it's a neologism unique to you.

HARK! · Jul 26, 2023

FireDragon76 said:
"Capita" is not a word, it's a neologism unique to you.

Sorry to burst your bubble; but I'm not the only one:

Per capita is a Latin phrase literally meaning "by heads" or "for each head", and idiomatically used to mean "per person". The term is used in a wide variety of social sciences and statistical research contexts, including government statistics, economic indicators, and built environment studies.

It is commonly used in the field of statistics in place of saying "per person"[1] (although per caput is the Latin for "per head"[2]).

Per capita - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hans Blaster · Jul 26, 2023

HARK! said:
Without the tax, there is no tax credit.

Capita is Latin for "head." See Article 1 Section 9.

So which "head" tax are we talking about. I don't see one involved in this case.

HARK! · Jul 26, 2023

Hans Blaster said:
So which "head" tax are we talking about. I don't see one involved in this case.

You might want to review the conversation. I've already given you all of the information that you need.

FireDragon76 · Jul 26, 2023

HARK! said:
Sorry to burst your bubble; but I'm not the only one:

Per capita is a Latin phrase literally meaning "by heads" or "for each head", and idiomatically used to mean "per person". The term is used in a wide variety of social sciences and statistical research contexts, including government statistics, economic indicators, and built environment studies.

It is the ablative case of caput, but the way you used the word is incorrect, because it wasn't in the ablative case. The latin word for "head" is caput. It is not "capita" in general.

HARK! · Jul 26, 2023

FireDragon76 said:
It is the ablative case of caput, but the way you used the word is incorrect, because it wasn't in the ablative case. The latin word for "head" is caput. It is not "capita" in general.

Thanks for the lesson in Latin semantics.

Did you review Article 1 Section 9, and the video that I presented?

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