This Sunday marks the 111th year that families across the nation will gather to celebrate all the love, care and work provided by the mothers in their lives. Woodrow Wilson declared Mother’s Day a federal holiday nearly a year after he established the basis of today’s modern income tax system, allowing him to lower tariff rates on many of the basic necessities American families relied on in 1914. It is darkly ironic that more than a century later, the Trump administration is attempting to reverse these pro-family policies while at the same time promoting a pronatalist agenda aimed at creating more mothers and larger families.
Trump continues to publicly voice his desire to replace income taxes with tariffs. At the same time, Vice President JD Vance is echoing far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s tax and financial policies aimed at spiking birth rates. But, these regressive policies won’t solve the problems mothers face today.
The above excerpt was originally published in Ms. Magazine.
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