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“Let’s tell it as the prophets might have: The decision to drop child tax credits for America’s poorest families and children in favor of further tax cuts for the rich is morally offensive.  It is blatant disregard for the poor and an outrageous bias toward the rich.  In religious terms, the exclusion of any benefits for poor children in a new tax bill should have been named as a political sin.  And those politicians who utter the words of religion and faith, yet who supported this exclusion of the poor, deserve to be called hypocrites.  The White House, which approves all these choices, engages in moral double-talk when it espouses faith-based initiatives, then allows the abandonment of poor families.  The Republican House and Senate leaders who made these choices against the poor should be ashamed of themselves.  And the president too ought to be ashamed for allowing something to happen that is so conspicuously wrong.”

-Jim Wallis, God’s Politics

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