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A Liberal campaign staff made a dumb joke on TV about the Tory’s child tax credit promise and it becomes one of the biggest stories of this election. The remark is clearly stupid and the staff should be fired for saying it on TV. This does not, however, means that he was not making a valid point, though poorly. It is a credit to all parents with children. It does not in any way commit the parents to spend it on their children. Is it so inconceivable that some of that money would go into mom and dad’s beer fund? And since the poorer of the parents would need that money for their children, the better-off ones are not. They would therefore be more likely to spend that money on things other than their children. This tax credit can certainly help parents with more money in their pockets, but it does not necessarily benefit parenting. The real problem with the dumb joke is that the children of the beer and chips crowd can and will use the money; it is the champagne and caviar crowd that would use it for inebriation. It should there for be called the child/caviar tax credit instead.