I stopped reading as I was afraid I was going to read about the stupidity of thinking there was price gouging.
Did grocery store profits not surge in 2020 and 2021 well above what a normal margin would have been for the industry?
So nobody has yet to explain how giving people money is going to cut costs.
It doesn't. Your issue is really that the tax credit should have been in section 2.
I'd agree with that.
I get why you as a libertarian would be against it, but a birth year tax credit to help with the related costs during that first year would be a huge help for new families and wouldn't cost that much relative to the current child tax credit. There is also always a fairly strong ROI when the government gives lower to middle class families more money.
I do understand the argument that if you can't afford children, you shouldn't have them. That's what I did, but it doesn't change the fact that many people do have children who can't afford them and longer term impacts of helping those families will be beneficial to the children and the country overall. Longer term, the birth rate in the US is too low a tax credit would help there as well.
