Republicans defend controversial child support bill

[lovelokest]

The Republican sponsor of a controversial bill that would reduce child-support payments for wealthy individuals said Monday that he is having changes made so that it would not apply retroactively

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[idemandjustice]

Will no one think of the rich people?

Translate this into mansplanning

[aviv_b]

Why should rich white men support their children to the detriment of their own standard of living? And as long as the kids have food, shoes that don't have too many holes and clothes that aren't rags, they should be grateful. And you know the non-paying parent got the house is spending it all on themselves anyway. It's so unfair...Waaaaaaaaaaa!

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[fenris_lorsrai]

different article was posted yesterday it has some different details. Key point, its not retroactive... but it does require reassessment of payment if they're more than 10% above what the new law would require. so selectively retroactive. conveniently that exactly describes Eisenga case. FUNNY THAT.

[kyouichi]

After reading comments at the source for this article, and the one before, I wonder if anyone has done any research on what the statistics are of

[tigerdreams]

Larson said the public isn’t served by a system that allows children to receive such a large sum in support payments.

Children aren't part of "the public" now?

“This bill needs to be looked at for what it’s worth, not who gave what to who’s campaign,”

Whose.