Barack Obama’s Campaign Promise: Making Work Pay Tax Credit.
On April 16, 2009,
in Tax,
by Obama Watcher
President invites families who benifit from Making Work Pay Tax Credit Promise.
Two Families where invited. The Wrights from Marrietta, Pennsylvania, and the Kirkwoods from Lynchburg, Virginia whom supported then-candidate Obama during the campaign as he was touting his promise of a Making Work Pay tax credit. Chris and Guenna Wright just bought a new home with their four-year-old son after seven years in their previous house. Kelly Kirkwood is a part time Nursery School teacher at Randolph College in Lynchburg, and her husband Scott is a graphic designer for a tiny local company – together they are living paycheck to-paycheck during this economic downturn. Today all of them came to the White House to meet with now-President Obama on tax day, with the President having made good on his campaign pledge.
Clark Harrison from Preston, Maryland and Latoya Malone from West Hempstead, New York both made good on the $8,000 home-buyers tax credit. For Clark it was exactly the breathing room he needed to be able to settle bills and make the fixes to the house, allowing him to get out on his own. For Latoya, who moved from the Virgin Islands to New York City to be close to her mother, the home-buyers tax credit helped put a house that had seemed just out of reach under contract for her
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