GOP Trying To Screw Children of Combat Troops

Navy Times -- Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, said House Republicans really don’t have any intention of getting the tax bill approved.

“This is one of the most cynical and hypocritical moves I have ever seen,” he said. “When it comes to tax relief, Republicans have their priorities backward. They pass hundreds of billions in tax breaks for people who have lots of unearned income, such as capital gains and dividends, but they penalize those who work hard for a living and, worse yet, those who have put their lives on the line for the country.

“The Republicans actually think that the child of a combat veteran should receive a smaller child tax credit than the child of a member of Congress because the member pays more income tax,” Rangel said.

The Senate isn’t any happier with the House bill. The Child Tax Credit Act passed the Senate by a 94-2 vote. In a joint statement, Sens. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said the House seems bent on slowing down the process.

“We don’t have time to hold these working families hostage in a protracted debate about another large tax cut,” their statement says. “Playing politics with the refundable child tax credit just raises the bar for these working families, and that’s just not fair.”

This is one of my favorite headlines.