Tell me why you think our Constitution should protect, by requiring a higher vote to reduce it, this tax expenditure, this tax credit for child care for wealthy people but not protect the appropriation needed to provide child care for people of limited means?
Durbin challenges the unequal protection of tax credits for wealthy versus appropriations for low-income families.
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