Trickle Down Devastation: A Single Mom Responds to Trump’s Tax Plan [BillMoyers.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/1/174:00 AM

This post originally appeared at Equal Voice News, a publication of Marguerite Casey Foundation.

You’re not a single mother. You have a spouse or a partner. You don’t have kids, or if you do, you’re raising them in a two-parent, two-income household. I’m happy for you — and a little envious. I don’t have that life. I have a 5-year-old I’m raising alone in Appalachia.

The proposed tax plan announced by Donald Trump punishes people like me: single parents living with their children on low- to moderate-incomes. Trump’s plan rewards the top 1 percent, but forbids single parents from filing as head of household, a tax status currently open to unmarried parents who pay for more than half of all expenses (rent, bills, food).

[For more of this story, written by Alison Stine, go to http://billmoyers.com/story/si...-to-trumps-tax-plan/]

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