WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney has proposed a reimagining of federal policy geared toward working families, providing them with a regular monthly cash benefit of $250-$350 per child.
“The Family Security Act 2.0 creates a new national commitment to working American families by modernizing and simplifying antiquated federal policies into a monthly cash benefit,” reads a statement Wednesday from Romney’s office. “This plan is fully paid for by consolidating existing federal spending.”
The benefit, $350 per child up to age 5 and $250 a month for each child age 6-17, would largely replace lump-sum payments working families get in the form of annual tax refunds via the Child and Earned-Income tax credits. Families could claim the benefit for up to six children and get it monthly or in one annual payment.
Romney and fellow GOP senators Richard Burr of North Carolina and Steve Daines of Montana are pushing the initiative, an update of a prior proposal from the Utah senator, the Family Security Act. He characterized the overhaul as a bid to better support working families, “the bedrock of our country.”
He envisions working with lawmakers in the months to come to fine-tune the proposal. “It’s no coincidence that fewer and fewer people are getting married and having children. We must do better to help families meet the challenges they face as they take on the most important work any of us will ever do — raising our society’s children,” Romney said in a statement.
Guidelines and restrictions would apply:
* A family would have to earn at least $10,000 the prior year, initially, to get the full benefit.
* Parents could also get the benefit for an unborn child four months prior to the due date.
* The benefit would be administered through the Social Security Administration.
* The benefit for each child would be reduced for families with higher income levels.
The three senators characterized the measure as a way of promoting the family unit and consolidating federal policies and initiatives geared to families.
“As the modern economy seems to discount the merits of raising children, federal family policy remains scattered across the tax code and dozens of different programs,” reads Wednesday’s statement. It said U.S. marriage rates “have fallen to all-time lows and birth rates have dropped 20% since 2007.”
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Mitt—explain to me how you spend your way out of debt. Do you even understand the magnitude of the federal deficit number right now??
Buying votes with tax payers money. Their all corrupt.
HE doesn’t know jack. he’s just doing what his libtard commanders tell him to say.
Just another scheme by a desperately failing Liberal candidate to buy votes to preserve his office by funneling honest American tax dollars via government enforcers to people who have not earned. Why do single and retired American taxpayers have to pay to support people who decide to have children? Most retired people have already spent fortunes raising children of their own. He who supports, feeds and medicates the kids are he who owns them. You cannot allow the government to properly do the job of what a parent was designed to do. The thing that gets raised is less than human and usually unfit to govern himself, let alone choose who is to govern a nation designed for Self-government, now being Romney populated by home grown and illegally entered people of entitlement mentality that bring nothing to the American table but an appetite. Romney seeks to become ringmaster in the next version of the Democrat inspired American circus of clapping seals and government trained dog and ponies. He tosses more fish to the seals that clap, while the Pavlovian dogs salivate, and the ponies just run in circles.
Romney is an absolute embarrassment!! Hopefully, Utah tosses this carpetbagger out on his arse at their first opportunity. Honestly, I cannot fathom what they were thinking when they elected this DB RINO to begin with.
AMEN!!!
I second that amen!
That’s right. Another scheme to take money out of the pockets of the American middleclass taxpayers who worked hard all their lives working for these rich plutocrats. These rich plutocrats do not pay taxes and they do not help the lower dregs of society.
Plutocrats,,,a word that sounds like Democrats from the planet just beyond Uranus.
#1. Where does this socialist Democrat Party get its money from? Does the federal government do ANYTHING to make money??
Or do they just take OUR money in tax dollars??
Why work when you can just have children and the socialist government will support you??
You don’t have any children?? Well you must go to work to support those who will not work and have children.
Well, in addition to extremely wealth donors, such as Bill Gates, Lex Bezos, and Mark Schmuckerburg, who see themselves as future kings in the New World Order, they’ve also taken to printing money nonstop. Their brain-dead, sycophantic followers still refuse to believe that such practices will result in massive inflation even though that’s exactly what has happened to every country that has ever done that.
AND when you look at how much all those ‘with kids’ already RAKE IN from unca govt, it makes those of us who DO WORK, look like fools, for actually DOING THE RIGHT THING.
I’m tired of the government buying votes with taxpayer redistributed money. We already have 80+ programs of welfare. There are churches and charities that receive tax breaks and donations in the billions of dollars to help the needy so why are taxpayers being stolen from? Churches and charities should be doing their job! Don’t have babies for other people to support! Taxpayers have allowed this to go on too long and never should have allowed it to happen! Taxpayers are slaves-free the taxpayers from their slavery!!!!!
Exactly. WELFARE WAS A temporary fix. YET WE STILL have it 80+ years later.. So much for temporary!
He should be a Democrat. To think that I voted for him (only because the other choice was worse) turns my stomach.
Me too, I want my campaign donation money back!
I’d like to know how this will solve anything. The daycare providers will just raise their prices $250.00 per month per child.
I’ve noticed that trend. Folks get “more money” to spend, and services that they pay for, some times get suddenly raised..