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Carroll Conley is the chief director of the Christian Civic League of Maine.
As an evangelical chief who joins with many who imagine within the worth of all life, it is a essential hour to get the just lately negotiated Tax Reduction for American Households and Staff Act (H.R. 7024) throughout the end line in Congress. With many Maine households struggling to pay for greater prices for meals, housing, well being care and vitality, we now have a uncommon alternative to advance a tax package deal that helps moms and dads select life and help their households whereas additionally strengthening companies in our communities.
An oft-repeated accusation made towards pro-lifers is that we care just for the unborn youngster. A toddler tax credit score gives anticipating mother and father the reduction and monetary help to maintain and lift their kids.
Along with strengthening companies in Maine by means of deductions for equipment, gear, and U.S.-based analysis and experimentation investments, this invoice enhances the kid tax credit score (CTC) to higher serve households in want by adjusting the CTC for inflation so mothers and dads will be capable to present for his or her children. This iteration of CTC is very useful for a rural state like Maine benefiting an estimated 39,000 kids below the age of 17 in our communities.
This laws additionally stops penalizing mother and father for having multiple youngster and ensures help for rising households whereas additionally strengthening incentives to work for fogeys with earned earnings. It might additionally make abortion much less thinkable, since many in search of abortion reside beneath the poverty degree or have already got a number of kids.
Congress has the chance inside a restricted window of time to enact a pro-family, pro-life tax coverage that can present speedy profit to households in want. I’m grateful for these within the U.S. Home of Representatives who confirmed sturdy, bipartisan management to advertise and shield American households and companies, together with Rep. Chellie Pingree.
This model of the Baby Tax Credit score has the help of a broad vary of teams, together with the Nationwide Affiliation of Evangelicals, the Nationwide Council of Church buildings, the US
Convention of Catholic Bishops, the Nationwide Latino Evangelical Coalition, Nationwide Hispanic Pastors Affiliation, Sojourners, College students for Life, and Involved Girls for America, amongst many others.
Now that it has handed the Home, I ask Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Angus King to help it and strengthen America for tomorrow.
