Clinton to propose $6000 tax credit for caregiving costs

The Democratic presidential candidate is unveiling her latest proposal on Sunday and plans to discuss it at a town hall-style meeting in Iowa.

“One thing we should not do”, Clinton said, “is follow a proposal that has been made by one of my opponents that would eliminate all of the health care program and private employer health care and Medicare, and Medicaid and Tricare and all of it, and put all of that together and would turn providing health care over to the states”. “Well, I don’t want to see your taxes go up; I want to see your health-care costs go down”. “When we are talking about the children, and I know how much you love the children and how much you do to protect the children …” Clinton’s stance highlights her focus on preserving President Obama’s health-care legacy, while Sanders has offered a proposal that seeks to make good on his promise of bringing a “political revolution”. He served in the House 16 years before that and as mayor of Burlington.

The campaign says the assistance would phase out for people with higher incomes.

As part of an ongoing rollout of measures aimed at bolstering the middle class, Clinton also has previously proposed tax credits for college costs and large out-of-pocket medical expenses.

Pledging to invest in the “caring economy”, Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a new tax break Sunday for people caring for aging parents and grandparents.

In Iowa today Hillary Clinton will propose a $6,000 tax credit for costs associated with caring for disabled and elderly family members.

Clinton told Bonilla, “You are the kind of person we want taking care of people”.

At most of his campaign stops, Sanders talks about making health care a right, not a privilege. Clinton has said she will introduce another way to pay for a paid leave program that does not raise taxes on middle-class families.

Though the SEIU is getting behind Clinton, the Sanders campaign on Tuesday said it still expects many rank-and-file union members to vote for him.

Clinton, who was in the midst of a campaign swing through the South, has tried to create a wedge on taxes with her main rival for the nomination, Vermont Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand-sponsored paid family leave bill, which includes a 0.2pc middle class tax increase. “For a long time, watching the national news, I’m sure you thought you only had two choices”.