Opinion:The GOP scamming of rural Trump voters continues. A new study shows the latest.
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Opinion: The GOP scamming of rural Trump voters continues. A new study shows the latest.
Supporters of Donald Trump at a rally in Ohio in June. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Opinion by Greg Sargent Columnist
August 2, 2021 at 10:07 a.m. EDT
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/owjigv/opinion_the_gop_scamming_of_rural_trump_voters/
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It has long been central to Republican mythology that Democrats have nothing but seething contempt for the rural and small-town inhabitants of the Real American Heartland. Republicans sometimes pair this with vile lies about Democratic proposals that would deliver economic benefits to those regions, turning their residents against them.
An important new study of the distribution of benefits from a major new policy from President Biden and Democrats — the expanded child tax credit — illuminates the repulsiveness of this scam with unusual clarity.
The new analysis from the Niskanen Center finds that the expanded child allowance — which has started delivering up to $300 per child per month to most U.S. households with children — will shower outsize benefits on residents of rural and less populous states and will deliver a disproportionately large relative boost to their local economies.
Every congressional Republican voted against the covid-19 rescue bill, which created the current child allowance by temporarily expanding the previously existing child tax credit to poorer and working-class families, making it much more like a universal program.
And every Republican will likely oppose extending the expanded child allowance. It’s now set to expire next year, and Democrats hope to extend it until 2025 in the $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” bill they want to pass through the Senate via reconciliation.
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