the proposal comes after hillary clinton and donald trump sparred over taxes during their sunday night debate.  | ap photo by katy o'donnell 10/11/16 12:15 am edt democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton will propose doubling the child tax credit to $2,000 per child, up to and including 4-year-olds, the campaign announced this morning. clinton would also expand the credit by lowering the threshold for claiming a refund from $3,000 in earnings to <u+201c>the first dollar of earnings for families with children of all ages,<u+201d> according to a statement from the campaign. story continued below the campaign said as many as 15 million children would qualify for the credit of up to $2,000. <u+201c>hard-working, middle-class families are struggling with rising costs for child care, health care, caregiving and college,<u+201d> clinton said in the statement. <u+201c>this new tax credit will make their lives a little bit easier and help restore fairness to our economy.<u+201d> clinton would offset the cost of the expanded credit with higher taxes on <u+201c>the wealthy, wall street, and big corporations,<u+201d> the campaign said. the proposal comes after clinton and gop nominee donald trump sparred over taxes during their sunday night debate. by toby eckert <u+201c>hillary clinton is raising your taxes, folks. you can look at me. she<u+2019>s raising your taxes really high,<u+201d> trump warned at one point, after pledging to cut taxes <u+201c>big league for the middle class.<u+201d> clinton shot back that trump<u+2019>s proposed <u+201c>tax cuts would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.<u+201d> she added, <u+201c>i have said nobody who makes less than $250,000 a year <u+2014> and that<u+2019>s the vast majority of americans as you know <u+2014> will have their taxes raised.<u+201d> by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
clinton proposes child tax credit expansions - politico
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