On social media Friday morning, a senior member of Harris' campaign called giving tax breaks to people with children “despicable.”
Amar Moosa, emergency operations manager for the Harris campaign Attacked Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance blasted Mr. X for arguing in a 2021 interview that people with children should pay lower tax rates than those without. Moussa's comments could signal a change in Vice President Kamala Harris' thinking on the child tax credit. She has previously said expressed support Democratic leaders are concerned the vice president will deviate from tax policy set during President Joe Biden's term in office. according to To Punchbowl News.
“So if we're going to talk about taxation, let's tax the bad and not tax the good,” Vance said in 2021. according to He told ABC News: “If you make $100,000 a year, $400,000 a year and have three kids, you should pay a different, lower tax rate than if you make the same amount and don't have kids. That's it.” (RELATED: Harris Wanted to Abolish Bail and Reduce Penalties for Criminals)
The child tax credit provides a tax break of $2,000 per child to parents filing jointly who earn less than $400,000 a year. White House And that Inland Revenue Service.
“J.D. Vance's attacks on childless Americans [more] “He's awful,” Musa wrote. “He called for higher taxes on childfree people.”
People at X were quick to point out that the policy proposal Moussa was criticizing was, in effect, a rendition of the Child Tax Credit.
“Isn't this the child tax credit that you guys support?” Joe Simonson, reporter for the Washington Free Beacon Responded.
Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio arrives at a campaign rally at Radford University on July 22, 2024. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Moussa defended himself by pointing out that Vance supported a bill introduced by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri that would provide additional tax credits to single-income couples to make it easier for parents to stay home and raise their children. Harris' staff argued that this meant “single parents would get less money,” but Hawley's “Parent tax credit” would have actually provided an extra $6,000 to single parents and $12,000 to married couples.
“Wow, the radical Kamala Harris camp is against the child tax credit,” Donald Trump Jr. said. I have written“Apparently they don't think parents should benefit from the tax code. Kamala is running the most anti-parent, anti-family campaign in American history!”
The Harris campaign and Moussa did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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