Republicans are trying to balance the budget through spending cuts i.e. “smaller government”. Well – this is what their version of smaller government looks like…instead of raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans – they want to cut vital programs for KIDS…school lunch programs etc. The problem with kids nowadays is that they’re just too lazy to pay their own way – they’re the welfare queens of society…always mooching off of their parents. <sarcasm/>.
When I was a kid – there were times in my life that I was on the free lunch program. My mom didn’t make enough money and I’m lucky that I was able to eat. Children need food in order to be good students…and this doesn’t seem like something that I would characterize as “government waste” but the GOP does. All of this despite the fact what economists are saying – RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH and you’ll be able to balance the vast majority of the budget (source).
From the Center for American Progress – article HERE:
- The House Committee on Agriculture found 100 percent of its savings from cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Nearly half (48 percent) of the program’s 46 million participants are children. And because the House budget included cuts to a provision that coordinates this essential nutrition assistance with other safety net programs, 280,000 children would no longer be automatically eligible for free school breakfast and lunch.
- The House Ways and Means Committee axed programs that help abused or neglected children and gutted programs that help low-income working families with kids. The committee eliminated the Social Services Block Grant, which helps over 11 million kids through funding to states for services such as child abuse prevention and intervention, foster care, and child protective services.
- The House Ways and Means Committee would also deny access to the child tax credit to parents who pay federal income taxes using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number instead of a Social Security number, mainly harming American children whose parents are low-income working immigrants. Specifically, this change would take $1,800 away from the families of 5.5 million children in working families with incomes below the poverty level at a time when more than 1 in 5 kids are living in poverty.
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