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Taking Stock of the Tax Bill After 2 Years

The United States is increasing their spending and lowering taxes on everybody and almost nobody is angry about it. But if you saw a teenager cut his work hours in half and take out another credit card, you’d want to slap their parents.

#Repost @dayofdistress ・・・ #Repost @justicedemocratsma ・・・ Really? No money for CHIP? This is shameful . Call your Reps. In September, Congress let expire the Children’s Health Insurance Program, a bipartisan-backed program that covers millions of low-income kids whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. First created in 1997 under President Bill Clinton, CHIP provides health insurance for routine checkups, doctors’ appointments, and hospital care for nearly 9 million kids—as well as 370,000 pregnant mothers—across the United States. The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), an independent agency tasked with making recommendations about Medicaid and CHIP, estimated in July that more than 1 million children would lose medical coverage if Congress failed to reauthorize CHIP—and that some 4 million CHIP enrollees were at risk in states where programs weren’t tied to Medicaid and where, as a result, the states were “not obligated to continue covering these children.” Over the weekend, the debate over CHIP came to a boil after comments from Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican who helped create the program two decades ago. When debating the GOP tax bill Thursday on the Senate floor, Hatch said that CHIP was in trouble “because we don’t have money anymore,” even though he believed it had done a “terrific job.” He then added he had a “rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves, won’t lift a finger and expect the federal government to do everything.” . . #chip #chipprogram #children #child #childcare #orrinhatch #republican #republicans #senate #healthcare #health #gop #goptaxscam #taxes#ivankatrump #melaniatrump #defecit #medicareforall #singlepayerhealthcare #impeachtrump #liberal #justicedemocrats #gop#justicedemocratsma #dayofdistress