A working family of four making $16,000 a year would get no credit under this plan. Is that not correct?
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Questioning the implications of a proposed plan on low-income families.
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But it is true, is it not, that a family of four making $16,000 a year gets no tax credit under this Republican proposal that the Senator from Indiana is lauding today? Is that not correct?
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