{"id":35,"date":"2003-06-11T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/35.html"},"modified":"2003-06-11T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2003-06-11T13:54:11","slug":"delay-names-his-price-for-expanded-child-tax-credit-for-working-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/delay-names-his-price-for-expanded-child-tax-credit-for-working-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLay names his price for expanded child tax credit for working poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for a week that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) would demand a bigger, broader tax cut bill to go along with Democratic demands to expand the child tax credit to the working poor.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A41840-2003Jun10.html\">he named his price<\/a>: $82 billion in tax cuts, on top of the $350 billion tax cut plan passed just last month.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, it would cost $3.5 billion to restore the child tax credit for those low-income families left behind by the Republicans&#8217; last tax plan. The Senate has already moved on the Democratic plan, passing a $10 billion tax cut, including the expanded tax credit, last week.<\/p>\n<p>DeLay, however, has a bigger cut in mind. He acknowledged that some would prefer a bill dealing only with the child credit, but said that &#8220;ain&#8217;t going to happen.&#8221; He also recognized that White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer indicated that the president wants the House to pass the Senate version, but DeLay said, &#8220;The last time I checked, [Fleischer] doesn&#8217;t have a vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vote on the $82 billion tax cut plan is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/06\/10\/child.tax.credit\/\">scheduled for tomorrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It may pass the way DeLay has crafted it, the GOP caucus in the House is voting more and more in lock step, but I really doubt the Senate would go for another $82 billion in tax cuts so soon after barely passing a $350 billion plan.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe DeLay is taking his chances hoping the conference committee will split the difference, and he can still end up with a $40 billion cut. Or maybe DeLay wants the whole plan to fail because he doesn&#8217;t care about expanding the child tax credit, so he&#8217;s intentionally supporting an unrealistic bill. Or maybe DeLay is callous right-winger whose interest in public service is limited to helping wealthy GOP contributors and religious fundamentalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for a week that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) would demand a bigger, broader tax cut bill to go along with Democratic demands to expand the child tax credit to the working poor. Yesterday, he named his price: $82 billion in tax cuts, on top of the $350 billion tax cut plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}