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The Child Tax Credit

I think it also depends where we're the means testing is happening. At the bottom, i'm so a you have to meter work quirement or or make a certain amount of money to qualify for an tax credit. And then you have like, very top end means testing, which seems to be only getting more popular. If there's slightly over a limit that could create political problems. It might benefit to have more upper middle class people in your coalition defending a programme. But also, it's just very administratively complicated. I write articles about the child tax credit, and i want to say when it phases out but it's genuinely, they're like thousands of scenarios for when you would

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