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On the recordMarch 23, 1994
As I understand the way this tax credit works, or child-care credit works, if a family is making $1 million a year they would get the same tax credit per child as a family making $30,000 a year. Is that correct?
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James Sasser
Tennessee

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Questioning the fairness of the child-care tax credit during a Senate discussion.

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