Why does this family-focused tax credit emphasize marriage and employment?
“Efforts to alleviate poverty and improve upward mobility should not ignore the power of marriage and employment, according to the architect of a proposal that would eliminate both the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit, while folding some of their features into a new tax credit design.
‘The working family credit,’ a proposal by poverty scholar Angela Rachidi, of The American Enterprise Institute, would include aspects of both of those existing tax credits, while emphasizing the need to work in order to qualify. It would also eliminate so-called marriage penalties, she told the Deseret News.”