$35 million not going to go very far … https://t.co/dbr01HJDa4

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021

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July 16, 2021 at 01:45AM
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If you’re going to boast how your “tax credit” checks go to “working families,” why not restrict the checks to working families? Biden’s plan explicitly–triumphantly, from the perspective of the left–does not do that. This is what he is trying to hide.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 10:05PM
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Right. But he’s also trying to send welfare to non-working people by pretending they are really “hard-working” — old Dem welfare trick (until Bill Clinton came along and briefly substituted a clear-eyed picture of welfare population). https://t.co/ba0H8PrX6k

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 09:36PM
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Could have been @GeneSperling46 calling over and telling the “official” quoted by Newsweek to come up with some stat STAT. The official “spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal analyses.” Not confidence-inspiring. https://t.co/7C1k0pIXSO

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 09:29PM
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CORRECTION: I was thinking of *new* recipient families to whom Biden is now providing the “refundable” credit. They seem likely to be non-workers. There are also those who got partial–not full–credits before. Would be good to know how many of them are working/”hard-working” https://t.co/FV3iEbNxjL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 09:23PM
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You wonder what this official/unofficial Treasury calculation means by “have a job or a source of self-employed income.” One dollar in self-employment income? $100 in a year? $0–but have a ‘source.” Strongly suspect it is not what most people mean by “have a job” or ‘work.’ https://t.co/7C1k0pIXSO

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 08:59PM
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Odd how this 97% calculation (mentioned by Biden) isn’t included in Treasury’s press release today. (https://t.co/23YNLi6EIE) https://t.co/VOlpSSXdol

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 08:56PM
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“But the extra $1,000 a month for the next year could be a life-changer for Daniel, who now works as a community organizer for a Richmond nonprofit.”
Weird how often the allegedly typical poster people for these programs work for activist organizations. https://t.co/KLpI6u4LCW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 08:17PM
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Another sign of crack staff work from @VP Harris’ office. Didn’t realize that the old boast about cutting poverty in half (see, e.g., here https://t.co/1ArBudEUWz) was now inoperative. https://t.co/6JCeEX7eD8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 06:08PM
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Before now you could get the “child tax credit” if you earned as little as $2,500/year, as I understand it. Obviously the millions of new recipients Biden is adding, who make *less* than that, are mostly non-workers, no? https://t.co/uf70PheGer

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 06:02PM
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Biden keeps talking today about “working families”-bogus because his “refundable” child credits go to non-working families. That’s what’s new! He even says it’s “hard-working families” who gain from refundability-must be BS. Surely it’s mostly non-workers https://t.co/N6m1D7VG5d

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 05:51PM
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Happy to bet @GeneSperling $100 that the Biden Child Tax Credit will *not* reduce child poverty even by his marked-down 35%. (And it’s not worth moving people a bit above an arbitrary $ line if it means re-growing a dependent underclass.) https://t.co/6JCeEX7eD8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 05:34PM
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VP Harris says new child checks “will lift up half of our nation’s children who are living in poverty, out of poverty.” https://t.co/N6m1D7VG5d This is obviously not going to happen, which is why WH point man @GeneSperling46 cuts the prediction to 35-40%. https://t.co/ZNOka8wTqm

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 05:23PM
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One of President Clinton’s biggest achievements was the 1996 welfare reform: When the message went out that you had to work to get benefits, work dramatically increased. Why is @GeneSperling46 -who worked for Clinton-now working to undermine his reform? https://t.co/4RiCSoYETP https://t.co/NlYkImwolW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 04:55PM
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“Simply having ‘child’ in the program’s name…”

You mean like Aid for Families with Dependent Children? https://t.co/8ddJJxpWsS

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 04:43PM
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Love that Biden Dole! (It really does effectively reverse Clinton’s welfare reform) https://t.co/4RiCSoYETP https://t.co/OgdSXjRMHz

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 04:21PM
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Very concise summary. I didn’t know the PRO Act is still in the big Dem bill, or that the extension of the Biden Child Check dole might have been shortened. https://t.co/8696UZpejU

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 04:12PM
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Oh no. @marcorubio has made Sam Hammond mad! https://t.co/JYeGlxbqzq (Hammond’s argument makes no sense to me. Why can’t Rubio oppose Biden’s neo-welfare “refundable” child checks for non-workers, and oppose big new federal day care subsidies on other grounds if he wants?)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 03:54PM
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Some pushback from back in West Va. against Manchin on immigration amnesty https://t.co/kEAErZzR8g Emphasizes effect on blue-collar wages–e.g. “an amnesty would devastate blue collar West Virginians in the construction industry”

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 03:40PM
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Oh no. @marcorubio has made Sam Hammond mad! https://t.co/JYeGlxbqzq (Hammond’s argument makes no sense to me. Why can’t Rubio oppose Biden’s neo-welfare “refundable” child checks for non-workers, and oppose big new federal day care subsidies on other grounds if they want?)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 02:02PM
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PS: It’s hard to believe the Dems won’t pass *some* ‘reconciliation’ package toward the end of the year. The question will be what’s in it: immigration amnesty? The full “child check” dole? Massive day care, home health care expenses? Etc. https://t.co/PtOTul5cXX

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 01:50PM
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Yes, getting the giant Dem budget packages through the House (where a few moderate defections can kill them) might be harder than getting them through the Senate. https://t.co/5EvdKuV50J

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 01:47PM
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None of the scoops from the various Trump books, so far, have provided evidence for the Dems’ 1/6 narrative–that Trump conspired with the rioters to block the electoral count through violence. …Doesn’t mean evidence isn’t there. But you’d think if they had it, they’d flog it. https://t.co/WJ5fVJefsy

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 02:21AM
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.@TheAtlantic desperately needs @JamesWolcott or someone like him (but there aren’t many like him). https://t.co/0P8shno0v6

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 01:58AM
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Also strategic ambiguity on whether they have nukes https://t.co/RlREzaJRhJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021

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July 15, 2021 at 01:56AM
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