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Blake Moore: “Mr. Davis, that was very confusing to me, and I will take my seat, but I just wanted clarification on that. The earned…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2014
Mr. Davis, that was very confusing to me, and I will take my seat, but I just wanted clarification on that. The earned income tax credit, which is a benefit that is provided to ordinary Americans through the Tax Code, we are required to eviscerate programs like Meals on Wheels for elders through the Social Services Block Grant and to get rid of maybe some of the low-income heating programs that heat homes in places like Chicago that are cold in order to pay for an expansion of the earned income tax credit, but the $618 billion in tax cuts which were designed to be just temporary but you made permanent the other day, I guess you pay for it by not giving unemployment compensation to people.
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Blake Moore
Republican · Utah
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Jul 24, 2014

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