Just to be clear, Catholic Social Teaching demands a just wage for families. When a child is added, enough income must be added through the public and private sector to fully fund that child’s needs at an acceptable middle class lifestyle. The current tax law does not do that and the proposed reform helps little, if at all. Shfiting the child exemption to a credit is helpful, but it needs to be a refundable credit. $1600 is progress, but it should be $1000 per month per child. The current system is an F and the proposal does improve it. Getting rid of TANF, SNAP and even some housing subsidies would be fine so long as they were replaced by cash. Replacing the mortgage interest and property tax deductions with an improved Child Tax Credit would actually get us close to adequacy. The bill takes away some of the MID, but it sends it to business owners and the Executive Class. Epic fail.