Cory Booker: “My bill also has a massive expansion of the child tax credit…”

“It would mean that most Americans who all of us pay federal taxes, from our FICA taxes to federal taxes when we buy a beer or buy gasoline, but most Americans would not pay income tax and the lowest wage earners because My bill also has a massive expansion of the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit. It would cut child poverty in half and give a massive elevation to adults who live in poverty, the people that I got into politics to fight for.” (12:05–12:11)

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