About a month and a half ago, Demos’ Matt Bruenig launched an Internet scuffle with a post suggesting that recent conservative proposals to rejigger the tax code in parents’ favor are unnecessarily complicated. If we want to address child poverty, Bruenig asked, why should we “create three different child-related tax carve outs and then also two different sets of tax rates for parents and non-parents”—when we could instead just give parents money? (Bruenig co-authored a New Republic piece with Elizabeth Stoker elaborating on the idea, and mentioned it again in a Salon piece today.)
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