Here's What Families Are Actually Using the Child Tax Credit to Pay For

[kpete]

Overwhelmingly, people who have received the child tax credit payments have used it for food, rent, and utilities and to pay off debt, data from the U.S. Census Bureau has found.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-20/child-tax-credit-2021-joe-manchin-opposes-aid-parents-are-using-for-food-rent?sref=SvwPxqpB

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[Tripper11]

1. not according to Manchin,,,,

drugs...all drugs....

[Cha]

6. That's Insulting to the People of West Virgina

and America.

[Tripper11]

7. I agree...someone posted here a few days ago

That he was basically whispering that shit to some people.

He's insulting.

[Cha]

17. Yeah, I saw that.. I was

going to post about it.. so TY for doing so.

[MustLoveBeagles]

25. Yes it is

[2Gingersnaps]

15. Shameless SOB

I guess that's what it takes for such a small man to float the Potomac on a yacht.

[Grokenstein]

18. Any "good" Republican

tooling around in expensive cars and yachts knows it's those damn welfare queens bleedin' us dry and spendin' it all on Caddies and smack. /sarcasm

[AllaN01Bear]

29. but its ok for bussiness owners who spent their businness stimuls on,

high priced sport cars . high priced boats and high priced airplanes? hem

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread kpete.

[kpete]

3. Happy Solstice Uncle Joe!

Good to see you
kp

[Uncle Joe]

5. Happy Solstice to you kpete!

It's good to see you as well.
UJ

[Cha]

4. Rt TY!

[Irish_Dem]

8. So Manchin is just talking out of his wazoo?

[Shermann]

9. Paying down debt...ah ha!

Debt to drug dealers no doubt!

Also I'm skeptical of "recreational goods".

[patphil]

10. Out of touch.

Senator Manchin is too far removed from his constituents to understand what it's like to have to stretch your income to cover necessities.
Joe, you need to walk a few miles in their shoes. Spend so time driving their 15 year old car to their $10. an hour job (if that), and sitting alone in the kitchen at night wondering how you're going to pay for utilities this winter.

Joe, you simply don't have any idea what your constituent's needs are.
You need to drink deep in the life of quite desperation so many of your people are experiencing.
It's not about you, Joe. You have more than enough.

[Bev54]

12. I remember they used to have some show on TV where people switched

with others to live someone else's life. I can't really remember much, just saw it a few times, but perhaps, not just Manchin, but many congressional members should switch with their constituents to see what real life is like.

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. Make him and his wife live on the food stamp challenge for a month

They maximum they could get if they were poor if $459 per month. They wouldn't last a week.

[gratuitous]

16. And especially cruel

Stringing along this charade when by all indications he had no intention of voting for BBB all the time. Instead, he stalls and obfuscates and does his little Hamlet routine and the weekend before Christmas shafts his party, his constituents, and the country. But that's not enough; he has to come up with a rationale so insulting even some (not a lot, but some) Republicans cringed.

[Casady1]

11. Manchin is old

and in the way. He epitomizes the thinking of many people his age. It really is all projection. Republicans and people like him are like the people he imagines stealing "money" in their inner selves. They have a view that everyone cheats because in the same situation they would cheat. They would steal votes if they can, they would go and spend money on booze and drugs. They would falsify sick leave to get time off. They are cheats.

[bottomofthehill]

13. Back Off, Joe knows what he is talking about when it comes to government hand outs

Kyle Rittenhouse used his Covid money to buy the gun that he used to kill 2 people and maim another one.

Once Again, Joe is right

[durablend]

14. Stop complaining and clap louder

"He's the best we can get there, votes with Biden 298% of the time and if he says they're buying drugs, THEY'RE BUYING DRUGS"

[Grokenstein]

19. Hah! Perfect!

[Emile]

20. Joe Manchin says he knows how the people in his state think

and they use that money to buy illegal drugs! I wonder what they think of the senator they voted for saying that about them?

[japple]

21. Oh they must be eating steak and lobster and buying fancy clothes while the

rest of the country eats hamburger and wears a "respectable, Republican, cloth coat."

[maxsolomon]

22. Isn't food kind of a drug?

Manchin sees right through those poors.

[TheBlackAdder]

23. I thought it would be reducing their income tax payment due. You know, the stuff Trumps don't pay.

[Purrfessor]

24. We need a graph on what Manchin spends his benefactors' money on.

[hay rick]

26. West Virginians are probably wasting it on yachts and Maseratis. nt

[appalachiablue]

28. +1

[AllaN01Bear]

27. hear hear.

[TimeToGo]

30. Survey

This is a survey, so self reporting. Still, most people are going to be using the money for real needs.

And adding — unless there is evidence, why go there?

[markie]

31. so they say

that 6 percent could be a bit of Gin and tonic to make it easier to deal with the kids

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

32. I'm reminded of the claims I've seen all too often of people on food stamps

buying steaks and caviar.

Perhaps Joe is simply assuming that others would do what he would do with that money. Keep in mind that Republicans invariably project their own sins/behaviors/desires on everyone else.

[Solly Mack]

33. Paying down debt and Recreational Goods. It's right there in black, white, and orange.

Drugs (owes drug dealer) and hunting!

And you just know that "Other" is code for combining drug use with moonshine while hunting.

[PurgedVoter]

34. Projection, Senator Joe Yacht is clearly on drugs.

[Hortensis]

35. :) WV's drug abuse rate is higher than the national average,

but all tokes, etc, would probably fit into that 6% "other" or in "recreational goods." Self reported statistics, of course, but by definition this tax credit goes to employed adults with a dependent child..

In any case, I hope Manchin's insults damage his image as they should. He has until November 2024 to do damage control, of course, and voters are very fickle, but maybe personal offense will be longer lived.

[snort]

36. He's a Greedhead and nothing more.

Zero interest in his constituents.

[IronLionZion]

38. Amazing how all those parents can make up those excuses while high on drugs

but apparently spending all their money on drugs helped them think up creative ways to get food, housing, clothing, etc. They probably bake pot brownies for food. Utility bills must be for their drug greenhouses. Education is in the meth labs.

[Dukkha]

39. I'm guessing guns fall under "Recreational goods" in WV

That would be Manchin's constituents for sure.