$91,000 Income Families Eligible for ARKIDS

Iris Stevens, Women's Prayer & Action Group: It is incredible that we abort 4,500 babies a year in Arkansas, yet for the children we can rob the poor taxpayers and bankrupt our state to provide insurance for the children of families up to $91,000, and liberals are already pushing for more. And those legislators who can't even vote against partial birth abortion are the most ardent supporters of children's health care. It is obvious this is not about the children but about the liberals fulfilling their agenda for nationalized health care.

According to an article by Columnist David Sanders, Arkansas News, families with incomes of $91,000 could get welfare insurance under cigarette tax.

. . . The threshold for the ARKids First health insurance program moved from 200 percent over federal poverty to 250 percent. This means taxpayers will soon begin subsidizing the health insurance for children from families of four (two children) earning $55,000 annually — $64,000 (three), $73,000 (four), $82,000 (five) and $91,000 (six).

Most lawmakers – especially those in the House — had no idea that their vote would essentially put the state in the business of providing middle class and upper-middle class families with a new health care entitlement.

And, of those who knew, they wholeheartedly embraced the increase. Their justification — we must do it for the children — was both predicable and incredibly shortsighted. . . . Quite frankly, if state officials were really concerned about Arkansas families who don’t have enough money to pay for life’s necessities — like health insurance for their kids — they might consider indexing income tax rates. But the mere mention of injecting common sense in the state’s income tax policy causes most lawmakers to break out in hives.

Under current tax law, an annual income of $31,000 qualifies for state’s top income tax rate of 7 percent — Arkansas just so happens to have the highest income tax rates in the region. . . . [Full Article: Raising the income bracket for ARKids]

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