After all the hue and cry against J. D. Vance, Kamala Harris just proposed exactly the same concept:

The economic plan includes tax cuts for middle-class families, including a $6,000 child tax credit for families during the first year of a kid’s life — when expenses go up, and income often goes down while a parent steps out of the workforce for child care. Harris, echoing Biden, wants to bring back 2021’s expanded child tax credit, which was $3,600 per child under age 5 and $3,000 for those older, under the American Rescue Plan.

If you’re keeping score at home: Yes, that means that families with new children would get a better deal from the tax man than would childless cat ladies.

Technically, it’s not a tax cut, it’s a tax credit, which in many cases means the government is giving handouts to people who pay no taxes. But even then: The childless cat ladies don’t get it, only the people who have babies.