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Republicans Block Bill That Would Have Cut Taxes For Families (www.huffpost.com)

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 3 months ago

Having no deductions is a function of what you put on your W4, not of having kids.

I've been on both sides of the coin, it's not you subsidizing the earned income credit, it's me and others like me who have ~$4,000 a month taken from our pay and am perfectly content to have it pay for someone's kids or the local school rather than more military gear. You will get most of all of that $500/month back, or could just adjust the deducts to not have it taken to begin with.

Back when I did work at wage slave level that EIC was a huge win to have the kids not living in pure squaller, one which I took in as a step child. That was still a once a year thing though.