Jul 3, 2025
Ben Shapiro's RIDICULOUSLY BAD Take On Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill
Conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro has a major problem with the Child Tax Credit.
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It includes making permanent the annual
child tax credit at a level of $2,200.
House Republicans
want to bump it to $2,500, and then scale
it back to $2,000 after 2028.
And again, the child tax credit
is essentially a giveaway to people
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who don't pay taxes in the first place,
like the earned income tax credit.
Very often you're giving a tax credit
to people who don't pay taxes,
so it's just a check.
Yes.
That's, you know, the big problem with,
the big beautiful bill
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that just passed, you know,
the one that redistributes wealth
from the bottom to the very wealthiest
among us, the one that cuts Medicaid
to the tune of $1 trillion.
The one that also cuts funding
to food assistance for the needy.
All those provisions?
Not much of an issue.
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The real problem here
is that the child tax credit
will go from $2,000 per eligible child
to $2,200 per eligible child.
I mean, what an injustice.
What an injustice.
Do these people even pay taxes, do they?
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I have the answer to that, by the way.
In a minute.
Yeah.
So first of all, all my life I've heard
Republicans like Ben Shapiro tell me,
oh, man, do we need tax cuts,
tax credits, tax subsidies, and you.
And that stimulates the economy.
And that's the most important thing
in the whole wide world.
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You got it.
Now you're like, okay,
let's child tax credit.
But that's just going to non-rich people.
I didn't mean that.
I meant only to the super rich.
But well,
how about the earned income tax credit.
It's earned income
because it's for the working poor.
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By definition they're working
to get earned income tax credit.
So they're not bums.
They're not anything right.
They all the nonsense demagoguing
stereotypes that they put out there.
So these are hard working
Americans, right?
They're not working hard enough.
They're I mean, they're they're the poors.
They're not working hard enough.
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That's the real problem here.
And so all of a sudden, when it comes to
the working poor, the middle class, etc.,
he's like, what is he, stupid tax credits
going to the poor and middle class.
You should go to the rich. Okay.
You know how much the rich got
the top people making above $500,000?
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I'm going to say this 200 times.
They got $1.1 trillion.
On average, the people in the top 1%
got $65,000 a year extra
from this bill every single year.
So by the time Trump leaves office,
they're going to have gotten
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$195,000 at least extra.
The very richest people in the country.
But for Ben Shapiro, not enough.
It shouldn't have been 200,000.
Should have been 400,000 of the top 1%.
Take more of those tax credits
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we pretended to like away from families,
away from the working poor,
and give it to the rich and only the rich,
Ben Shapiro says that's who.
Exactly who Ben Shapiro is.
I mean, he cares about protecting the rich
as much as he
cares about protecting Israel.
And those are his only two issues.
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Everything else is just pyrotechnics,
fireworks, etc.
A bag of squirrels, all of it to distract.
Oh, trans this that.
The other thing.
All he cares about is rich,
rich rich, rich rich.
Plus Israel.
So let's talk a little bit about the child
tax credit, because what he is
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claiming here is that the child tax credit
is going to benefit individuals
who contribute nothing to federal taxes.
Right. That's the argument here.
Now let's take a look at what the child
tax credit was or has been
prior to the passage of Trump's agenda.
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So as of 2024,
this is reported by Newsweek.
The credit provides up to $2,000 per
qualifying child under the age of 17, with
up to $1,600 of that amount refundable.
I'll explain what that means
in just a minute.
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This means eligible families can receive
a portion of the credit as a refund,
even if they owe no federal income tax.
So it is true that the child tax credit
would still go to benefit individuals who
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are earning an income, but are not earning
enough to have to pay federal taxes.
Okay.
And so that's what he's
complaining about here.
And he's making it seem like most
of the beneficiaries of this provision
are not paying federal taxes,
which is hilarious to me.
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That's not the case.
Now what does how or how does the child
tax credit change under Trump's agenda?
Under the legislation that just passed?
Well, the bill boosts the child tax credit
from a current credit of $2,000
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up to, wow, $2,200.
Oh, and added $200 and would rise
every year linked to inflation.
However, it does not change
the refundable portion of the credit,
which is set at $1,600.
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Okay, so those are the changes.
Now, most who benefit from the child
tax credit actually do pay federal taxes,
if you could believe it.
Actually, I can't believe it.
It's the easiest thing
in the world to believe.
So let's take a look at data
that was released
by the Tax Policy Center using IRS data.
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What they found, and this was an analysis
that they did in 2022, was that
the majority of aggregate credit dollars
were received by taxpayers with income
between $50,000 and $500,000.
So, Jake, I'm not like some tax expert,
but if I'm not mistaken,
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individuals earning between $50,000
and $500,000, pay federal taxes.
- Is that correct?
- Yeah, that is correct.
And there's one other thing
I want to draw attention to, and I read it
to you guys, but I hope you got it.
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So if they don't pay any taxes,
the maximum they can get is $1,600.
That was what it was
before and after this bill.
It's still $1,600.
So if they don't pay any taxes, then
they didn't get a single extra dollar.
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But Ben Shapiro is still complaining
about it, as if the bill did that.
But the bill didn't do that at all.
And so what he's actually complaining
about is, why are these people
even getting a child tax credit?
Why would a tax credit go
to anyone that isn't in the top 1%?
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He's furious about it. He's such a joke.
This goes to the middle class
and they claim, oh no, no, the tax cuts.
Oh no, they told the Democrats
and the left says they just for the rich.
No, no, no, no,
they're mainly for the middle class.
They're really gonna help
the middle class.
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The middle class is getting some.
God damn it!
I told you to cut
all those middle tax ones, okay?
Or make them temporary
and capped and nonrefundable.
All these different things
that they've done?
No, this is every tax cut scheme
is a scheme to take your money and funnel
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it over to the wealthiest people
who bought all of our politicians.
All the donors are super wealthy,
and every one of them tells all
of the politicians, cut my taxes and I
don't give a goddamn what else you do?
Yeah.
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And by the way, about 25%
of all child tax credit recipients
are earning between 100,000 and $200,000.
So, in other words, the vast majority
of individuals who are taking the child
tax credit are paying federal taxes.
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The bill that just passed
changes nothing for those who are so poor
that they don't have to pay federal taxes.
The fact that he would
even focus on this for a second.
It befuddles me, considering how much this
bill again redistributes wealth from the
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bottom to the top and more importantly,
adds to our already unbelievably high
federal debt of $37 trillion.
It adds 3.4 trillion more in debt.
But let's let's go ahead and demonize
literally the poorest people in this
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country who have no voice, who have no
representation, who keep getting shafted
regardless of which party is in charge.
It's it's utterly ridiculous.
So that's what we're dealing with here.
We have trash media in this country,
a useless Congress that just takes,
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takes, takes, engages in insider trading,
engages in all sorts of behavior
that would be considered criminality
if ordinary Americans engaged in it,
and they get the best health care coverage
in the world, the best, you know,
retirement benefits in the world.
That's that's what we're
dealing with in this country.
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It makes me absolutely sick.
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