In 1981, Joe Biden took a lonely stand against expanding a child care tax credit via HuffPost aterkel
Joe Biden believes that every parent who needs child care assistance should get an $8,000 tax credit to help with the cost. He touted this idea in at least three speeches last month.
Many of the former vice president’s positions from this time period are now at odds with where the current Democratic Party is, prompting challenges from his 2020 primary opponents about whether he still holds them or whether he has evolved. His campaign declined to comment for this piece. So what we are doing now as a social policy, is saying, “Here, drop them off at 8 o’clock in the morning and pick them up at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, because I want a new patio; because I want to go on vacation; because I want to expand my horizon.” As a social policy I think it is undesirable and wrong.
“It is outrageous to make my father, who makes less than $20,000 a year, to pay a tax to see to it that I can put my child in a day care center. I think that is preposterous,” he said, using his father as a stand-in for the U.S. taxpayer. “If my wife and I want to do that, no one should be able to stop us. ... But my father should not pay for that.”
“Whenever you see a solo vote against something, he’s just trying to make a statement,” Davis said. “He has no intention of killing the bill.” The amendment that Biden opposed was supported by women’s groups and was part of an effort to acknowledge this changing family life. “If you have a mother, father, son or daughter, it is your responsibility to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to provide for the care of those folks unless there is a financial or physical inability for you to do so,” said Biden, then 38.
“If your income is too low to pay taxes, a tax credit such as this is of no help at all unless it is made refundable,” Sen. Al D’Amato said. The final bill made the child and dependent care tax credit more generous, but did not include Biden’s income limit or the refundability provision, which was just one part of the amendment Biden opposed. The overall bill passed the Senate 67 to 8, with Biden voting yes.
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