If I read yesterday's WSJ correctly, it seems that Clinton has agreed that whatever the upper limit on income for qualification for this $500 per child tax credit, so-called "very poor" families (<$19,000yr) will not be able to receive it putatively because they already receive other offsets. As if those who will qualify for this credit don't receive other kinds of offsets! This is just a war on the poor, a violent eugenics of the type sanctioned by The Bell Curve. And Clinton has agreed to it. Clinton stands here to the right of some Democrats in the House and the Senate who have proposed alternative plans which would extend the credit to the socalled very poor. For Clinton and Gingrich, it seems that the very poor has become an euphemism for the underclass, a euphemism for the residuum, a euphemism for the expendable. The article was titled "Partisan Child Tax Credit Battle Has Become Fight Over Whom Washington Wants To Subsidize", 7/23/97A20. Of course the headline should have read "Bipartisan Support for Negative Eugenics Prompts Less Outrage Than In Nazi Germany" Rakesh
