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As a pastor every day I see first -hand a fundamental reality that Families need strong communities, Including Christian communities and that communities, including Christian communities, need strong families.
This is one of the reasons why I look at questions and suggestions through the “lens” of the family. Does something help or harm families? Does it help to strengthen their families, closer to them, rooting them deeper in their communities and helping them to raise their children, or do they fragment their families and make the tasks of raising children and more difficult to root in wider communities?
I also ask, especially at this time of birth rates, does it help men and women to form families. Of course, there are many dimensions and factors, many questions we have to ask this question about. One of them is government policy, and some can rightly point out that there are more influential factors than the government does. This is true, and it would be a mistake to see the government as the only cause or the only solution for all the challenges that workers’ families in America face.
But it would be an equally mistake to think that government policy doesn’t matter or have very little impact on workers’ families, including those I serve in my community. This new administration has a timely opportunity to help workers’ families through the tax law. In particular, the administration has the opportunity to strengthen the tax loan for children (CTC) and do the procedure to request it simpler, saving millions of workers’ families valuable time and money.
President Donald Trump assisted the families by doubling the tax loan for children during his first term. Inflation took these gains. (East)
CTC is a tax credit for working families with children. This is directly related to work, so the more you do the better. Back in 2017, The loan doubled President Donald Trump at $ 2,000 per child, most of which return on the basis of a family income. However, today, $ 2,000 is buying far less than in 2017, which means that CTC has greatly weakened the heavenly cost of raising the family-world challenge for so many of those I serve.
Indeed, the American people know that; According to a recent survey, 81% of CTC adaptation support every year to take into account the growing living costs, and 74% think it should be collected (from current $ 2,000) to $ 5,000 per child. In addition, a full 78% supports some form of “baby bonus” to help families with a newborn baby.
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This would be politics about a family and family formation that could provide something like a “baby bonus” of $ 2,000 per parent that parents could get directly to their bank account on a social security card, usually two to four weeks after their child Born. Because of this, it is immediately useful for expenses after birth and to support the parent in those wonderful (but dormant!) The first few weeks after birth.
Our communities, our nation, need strong families and workers’ families needed by strong CTC other policies such as Baby Bonus to support them in those crucial early years. Indeed, the call of Vice President JD Vance for $ 5000 CTC is a great place to start. We can also help workers’ families by providing optional flexibility in the way it is claimed and ensure that it is associated with inflation, so it no longer loses value.
The administration also has the opportunity to use tools and technology to ensure that all workers’ families that meet the conditions of conscious loans and can easily request it. This should be part of a new and appropriate focus on user service throughout the Government, including internal income service. After all, the government exists to serve citizens, not the other way around. Work families should not need a tax expert or spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to ask for these critical loans like CTC income tax.
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The administration has started well, with Trump’s candidate to run the Ministry of Finance, Scott Beesent, testifying that one of the current free registration programs at the IRS, Direct File, will continue to be available for working families for working families this season to file taxes. It is free to submit and enable working families to see if they are entitled to a tax loan for children (like other loans) and, if they are eligible, it helps them request loans and submit federal taxes.
It was said that the future of the community is going through their families, so if we want strong neighborhoods, friendly communities, effective education and high quality jobs, we need strong workers’ families who raise the next generation of neighbors, teachers, employers and shepherds!
