Clinton proposes tax credit for family caregiving costs

CLINTON | Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is proposing new financial help for Americans who are caring for older family members.

One of the people who attended the town hall, Lavinia Engle, of Clinton, said she backed Clinton in 2008 and is doing so again this time because she has the most experience.

Given the disappearing middle class and massive income wealth inequality in America today, we clearly have to go a lot further than what Secretary Clinton proposes, Sanderss communications director, Michael Briggs, said in a statement issued Sunday night as Sanders campaigned here.

Sanders said, when asked about Clinton’s allegations his proposals would hurt Obamacare and raise taxes on the middle class. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled an formidable proposal to look after elderly & disabled Americans Sunday, together with a tax credit to assist pay for as much as $6,000 of caregiving espenses.

There are about 12 million people in the United States who need long-term care and that number is expected to grow to 27 million by 2050 as the population ages.

The campaign says the initiative would cost $10 billion over 10 years.

“We need to recognize the value of the work that caregivers give to all of us, both those who are paid and the great number who are unpaid”.

“You deserve a pay increase, not a tax increase”, she said Friday at a campaign event in Memphis.

Sanders’s campaign, however, told the Washington Post that for all but the wealthiest taxpayers, the tax increases would be offset by other benefits he has proposed, like tuition-free higher education and universal child care. “We are there miracle workers”, Lizabeth Bonilla, a home care worker from Las Vegas, told Clinton about her job. A smaller percentage, but still a majority, thinks Sanders is ready, but fewer say that of Martin O’Malley.

During a campaign rally here that drew close to 2,600 people, Sanders touted the bill, which is sponsored by Kirsten Gillibrand, Clintons successor as a senator from NY.

A new Bloomberg Politics national poll which was conducted after the last Democratic primary debate and the terror attacks in Paris shows that Clinton has continued to gain traction among likely voters in her party and now leads Sanders 55 to 30 percent. But Biden’s definitive exit from the race and a decline in voters with “no preference” have allowed Clinton to rise from 30% in September to 45% in the latest survey.