Sen. Josh Hawley Is Trying To Win Us Over

Sen. Josh Hawley has been making some big moves lately.

Yes, Josh Hawley is only one senator in a Republican caucus that is full of throwbacks to the 1980s, but there is an important difference. Hawley is only 41-years-old and is much more ideologically sympatico with us.

National Review:

“EXCLUSIVE – Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., will introduce a bill that would provide $6,000 parent tax credits to single parents and $12,000 parent tax credits for married parents with children under the age of 13.

“Starting a family and raising children should not be a privilege only reserved for the wealthy,” Hawley said in a statement on Monday. “Millions of working people want to start a family and would like to care for their children at home, but current policies do not respect these preferences. American families should be supported, no matter how they choose to care for their kids.”

Hawley’s bill aims to give more freedom to families to decide whether one or both parents should work full-time. The freshman senator’s proposal would give the fully refundable benefit to parents who hit a minimum earnings requirement of $7,540, which translates to 20 hours of work per week at the federal minimum wage. The legislation allows for the same earnings threshold for single and married parents and creates a “marriage bonus.” …”

Okay, I suppose this is at least a step in the right direction. We should have economic policies which try to reward marriage and stabilize working class families which are under extreme economic stress in this ludicrous Gilded Age economy that the GOP has been steadily creating since the 1980s.