and 9 i will have to sell it and move because i will not be able to afford to stay here. that s what that s going to mean? are you hopeful congress will finally deal with it? or are you worried they re not going to? if you had asked me the first of the year, i was hopeful, but the closer we get and the closer we get to time being up the more afraid i am that it s just going to be another year that we re cut from their agenda, that we re not important enough for them to help. and so i can t say that i m hopeful because they cut us so many times. there is a small hope inside me that they ll do the right thing, that they ll fix this. congress is trying to fix the kiddie tax and the widow tax, which is not, in which congress has tried and failed again and again to fix. the kiddie tax is attached to a
the kiddie tax for her children. her husband was a bomb disposal technician in the marines and he was killed by an ied in iraq in 2006 when malia was 28 years old and her children were 2, 7 and 9 years old. they have seen their taxes on this go from about $150 per child to $1,000 per child. all of this stems from the widow tax. something where gold star spouses transfer their survivor benefits to their kids so they don t lose these benefits. these benefits expire when the kids come of age. if congress has not fixed the widow s tax, what does that mean for you financially? i will have to sell my house, the house i bought after he died that i moved to and raised our children from the ages of 2, 7