The Georgia Department of Revenue released guidance on Monday saying that it will recognize “any unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat” as eligible for the state’s individual income tax dependent exemption.
Can the Georgia Department of Transportation (or whatever) weigh in on carpooling with zygotes?
“[A]ny unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat” [is] eligible for the state’s individual income tax dependent exemption.”
Hey, Sam? How “deeply rooted in American tradition and history” is that? Remember that pregnant lady who got ticketed for driving in the car-pool zone, and the jack-booted big government thug who sneered at her claim that the fetus was a person? When will SCOTUS come to her defense, Sam?
Does a pregnant woman have to pay for 2 seats on an airplane?
The guidance said a fetus can be listed as a dependent on tax returns starting next week if the person filing taxes was or will be at least six weeks pregnant on or after July 20 through Dec. 31, 2022. Taxpayers in Georgia can claim an exemption in the amount of $3,000 for each fetus.
That’ll stop abortions in the 7th, 8th, 9th, …, weeks…
Great timing, GA…
To be consistent, they should require that any miscarriage shall either be cremated or interred at least 6 feet underground with all the plot restrictions required of normal “humans”. Every woman who has a drink of alcohol after the 10th week, whether she knows she is pregnant or not, should be tried for serving alcohol to a minor. I’m sure there are a host of other laws that would apply but they won’t.
I would think carpool lanes would become a whole lot fuller, huh?
Nah, that qualifies as child in lap.
Traveling with children − Travel information − American Airlines (aa.com)
- Families with children under 2 years old can ask to board early at the gate.
They just can’t help themselves, can they?
Presumably if the pregnant female vessel is unmarried or married filing separately it is the FATHER who gets to claim the tax write-off, not the female vessel.
Go right ahead. File a different number of dependents on your Federal and State returns and see what happens. Oh, and be sure to get a Social Security Number for that six week old fetus so you can fill out the form correctly.
And gee, sure hope my wife doesn’t miscarry the unprovable unborn child that she conceives each year in December, so that it doesn’t look suspicious when I have an extra dependent (or two! Twins this time!) on my taxes, year after year after year.
Once again, a Republican talking out his hat about something absurd just to score points in the media. None of them care about governing, it’s all about the Likes.
Given what happened last night, this looks to be a 2022 campaign winner 
.
The Right only knows full-throated attack and bludgeoning innocent people (like rape victims). They will have to learn their own lessons.
They can NEVER be taught.
I appreciate Summer Concepcion’s choice of words: “It bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which is usually the timeframe when doctors can start to detect cardiac activity in the embryo.” “Cardiac activity” accurately describes the neurons that are firing as the heart is coming into being; the Georgia law’s “fetal heartbeat” does not. I wonder if the anti-choice folks might be hoist with their own petard in using the phrase “fetal heartbeat.” If courts were persuaded by doctors/scientists that the neurons that begin firing at about six weeks do not constitute a heartbeat, then laws using the phrase “fetal heartbeat” would not apply to embryos only six weeks old. I don’t know at what age doctors/scientists place the start of a true heartbeat, but I suspect it would be closer to 3 months than to 6 weeks.
Since life would be impossible without sperm, can I claim 12 billion dependents? I mean, this makes as much sense as Georgia’s stupidity.
Just when I thought Georgia might be going sane…
Imagine the tax savings serial rapists will enjoy. Can’t wait to see Georgia weigh in on that one.
I know you’re joking, but this law has been proposed innumerable times for all abortions, regardless of whether the “innocent babe” in question is even visible to the naked eye.
“Hey officer, prove that I’m not pregnant!”
BTW, since they count pregnancy from the first day of you last period, I assert that women are pregnant every day they are not menstruating!
Good grief. Zygote rights!!!÷23°°~!!!
Will trump take advantage of this tax break as well as bodies on his golf course?