Lloyd Doggett: “It is the specter. It is the ghost of relief. It is great for an election year, though. I think they have done a good…”

“It is the specter. It is the ghost of relief. It is great for an election year, though. I think they have done a good job of having a good election year ploy. But my concern is that with this basic underlying proposal, there is some discrimination against single parents, against widows; that is what led to this inequity to the code now. We ought not to disfavor them any more than we would disfavor married people. Finally, it is a matter that the children of people--whether family, married, single parent, whatever--we are going to place a penalty on them, and it is a national debt that, if they can implement every one of these permanent proposals, will be $4 trillion higher than if we reject them, as we should.”