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Related: About this forum60 Faith Leaders Sign Letter Telling GOP Not To Raise Taxes On 24 Million Americans
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/02/630071/60-faith-leaders-sign-letter-telling-gop-not-to-raise-taxes-on-24-million-americans/60 Faith Leaders Sign Letter Telling GOP Not To Raise Taxes On 24 Million Americans
By Travis Waldron on Aug 2, 2012 at 2:15 pm
A coalition of faith leaders released a letter ahead of yesterdays symbolic House tax vote telling Republicans not to allow the expiration of two tax credits that, together, would raise taxes on more than 15 million Americans. In the letter, the faith leaders called for extensions of the 2009 expansions of the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit, two provisions Republicans allow to expire in the bill they approved.
The GOPs plan to let the expanded tax credits expire, the letter said, was simply unconscionable:
These tax credits help families meet basic needs, reduce poverty, and remove barriers to work. It is hypocritical for lawmakers who talk about family values to abandon improvements in these effective, family-supporting programs. Failing to extend the improved tax credits would jeopardize the economic security and well-being of more than 15 million families and more than 36 million children within those families. This is simply unconscionable.
As ThinkProgress has noted, the GOP would also allow for the expiration of the American Opportunity Tax Credit, a tax break on college tuition payments that would affect roughly 11 million families. In total, the expiration of all three tax credits would raise taxes on 24 million Americans, 10 times the number that would see a tax increase under the Democratic plan to allow only the Bush tax cuts on higher incomes to expire.
This isnt the first time that faith leaders have criticized Republican policies. An assortment of faith leaders panned the House GOPs budget, calling it an immoral disaster that robs the poor. This summer, Sister Simone Campbell, one of this letters signers, led the Nuns On A Bus tour across the country to protest GOPs cuts to programs that help the poor and middle class.
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60 Faith Leaders Sign Letter Telling GOP Not To Raise Taxes On 24 Million Americans (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2012
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Please, let's have more of these stories, but next time, on M$M!
And kudos to the Nuns on the Bus!
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Thanks for posting this. Cross posted in Religion.
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)3. Wonderful. n/t