The Poor, Poor Pitiful Poor

[mburbank]

It's too bad 'Cheyene' can't afford an SUV. Then she could deduct it. I wish she'd made better choices. maybe she should move her mailing adress to Bermuda. What I'd really like is for some journalist half way worth their salt to see if this woman is real, or fictional. Back when some papers still had their own balls, investigation of Reagan's annecdotal poverty bashing revealed he'd made up the people in them.




Tax Law Omits Child Credit in Low-Income Brackets

By DAVID FIRESTONE The New York Times

WASHINGTON, May 28 A last-minute revision by House and Senate leaders in the tax bill that President Bush (news - web sites) signed today will prevent millions of minimum-wage families from receiving the increased child credit that is in the measure, say Congressional officials and outside groups.


Most taxpayers will receive a $400-a-child check in the mail this summer as a result of the law, which raises the child tax credit, to $1,000 from $600. It had been clear from the beginning that the wealthiest families would not receive the credit, which is intended to phase out at high incomes.

But after studying the bill approved on Friday, liberal and child advocacy groups discovered that a different group of families would also not benefit from the $400 increase families who make just above the minimum wage.