A robust pro-life, pro-family agenda requires the government to support all children better materially, at all stages of life, and the families into which they are born. A new child tax credit proposal introduced this week by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) would do just that.
The tax reform proposal is an update to a similar version proposed by Romney last year. The fundamentals of the bill are the same, with a few important changes. Under the plan, which is being co-sponsored by Sens. Steve Daines (R-MT) and Richard Burr (R-NC), the current $2,000-a-year child tax credit would become a $3,000-per-child benefit for families with children between the ages of 6 and 17, and a $4,200 benefit for each child under 6. The benefit would be doled out on a monthly basis.
