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Reform. and republicans doubled the child tax last year. we believe it. right now, its no longer termed to work. and now the bipartisan program has become the largest welfare program in american history. i think that takes us back almost 25 years. there are other studies that showed that initially, the dollars in child tax credit were not going for essentials but rather for savings and retirement which is a good thing. but the other study, according to the university of chicago, sos is this inef...

Back better be brought before the senate, i think only joe manchin knows the answer to that and perhaps senator sinema. i think senator manchin understands, maria, understands in his heart that this is a bad bill, bad social policy, bad economic policy. when i first heard about the build back better bill, i thought to myself, you know, this is satire, right. and then i took a look at it and i was amazed beyond imagination. i mean, its breath-taking. trillions of dollars of new spending, new taxe...

Your question is will build back better be brought before the senator, i think only joe manchin knows answer to that, and perhaps senator sin massachusetts i think senator -- senator sinema. i think senator manchin understands, maria, in the his heart that this is a bad bill, bad social policy, bad economic policy. when i first heard about build back better bill, i thought to myself, you know, this is satire, right? and then the i took a look -- then i took a look at it, and i was amazed beyond ...

Economy in a bad way before the delta variant showed up, but in this new spending package, for example, beyond over a trillion dollars of crippling tax hikes, including on small businesses, there are a couple programs that actually discourage americans from reconnecting to work. the new child tax credit will no longer be tied to earnings so it becomes a welfare program. >> why does that -- hold on a second. why does that discourage people from going to work? heres an example. i can afford -- hol...

And they get two trillion they complain in front of cameras and pop champagne when the cameras are off. it dovetails back to notion of changing who we are, president biden just recently reiterate. the so-called rescue plan put through, he said, that fundamentally changed america. that is when he is trying to do. part of that is a new welfare program. every child you have you get paid by federal government. more children you have the more you make. there is a point you get disincentivize to go to...

Afghan headed households used at least one major welfare program in 2019, that is 2.5 times the rate of households headed by nativeborn american. america is already in the whole for the $2 trillion it spent on the war effort in afghanistan and iraq but now we are on the hook for an additional $64 million in aid and then billions more in money, over decades in various social services, were talking housing, food stamps, healthcare, job training, efl classes and of course public schooling. we know ...

Make an impact. >> we have to recognize that we have a big moral debt to much larger number of afghans and we should at least have a much larger refugee program. speak of the willingness to accept more because we have to do more. >> laura: what? have you ever seen any of them as insistent about how we have to do more about helping our homeless vets. there are about 60,000 of them living on the street every night in the united states. not for one millisecond do they ever consider the burden that ...

You would turn a war into a welfare program and you would turn your military into an ngo, that would him elliott ever but involved. you would spend trillion dollars -- trumans of dollars to do this but you would get nothing in return from that money apart frm dramatically increasing corruptd opium. you would run afghanistan so badly with such unbelievable stupidity and overbearing arrogance that by the end, much of the population would yearn for the return of brutal religious extremists. then wh...

And this helps create jobs at supermarkets and farmers markets and it helps farmers. its the opposite of a welfare program. its an american strength program. >> absolutely. look, growing up, i lived in a household where we lived on benefits for a while. even to this day, there are members of my immediate family who receive snap benefits. we have to lift the shame and start talking about it. which brings me to claire. im so happy to have you tell your story. youre a recent college graduate and yo...

Towards universal basic income. lets call this ubi, universal baby income. it turns out what was once an annual one-time annual payment, a refund on your taxes, has now been turned into a monthly check from uncle sam the democrats hope to make permanent. $3,000 per year per kid for kids under 6, and $3,600 per kid for kids under 6. over 6 and un6, more or less $300 a month direct to parents for each kid. and once you turn on the faucet of government money, we know you cant really turn it off. ro...