In a live-streamed 2021 interview unearthed by ABC News even though small-faced dipshit MAGA influencer dipshit Charlie Kirk pulled the video at some point this year, eyeliner wearing Ohio Senator JD Vance in 2021 told Kirk he thinks that childless Americans should pay higher taxes.

“So, you talk about tax policy, let’s tax the things that are bad and not tax the things that are good,” Vance said in the interview, for which ABC was only able to find audio. “If you are making $100,000, $400,000 a year and you’ve got three kids, you should pay a different, lower tax rate than if you are making the same amount of money and you don’t have any kids. It’s that simple.”

Vance’s spokesperson told ABC that “the policy Senator Vance proposed is basically no different than the Child Tax Credit, which Democrats unanimously support,” which isn’t actually the worst response given the time and the context of the Biden Administration pushing it (except if they actually unanimously supported it then it would still be law. Fuck Joe Manchin). Still, it’s not a good look for Vance given the “childless cat lady” shitshow. That Kirk pulled it this year, probably right around the time Vance joined their Orange Allah’s 2024 ticket ought to tell you enough.

Separately, CNN reports that restaurants in Japan, unable to keep up with tourist traffic, have started charging them higher prices than locals – something the restauranteurs are claiming is actually a discount for locals when asked by media after the fact… Similarly, Vance could just fucking take the podium in the Senate and announce his support for reviving the child tax credit if he wants to frame his position similarly as being an incentive to procreate rather than a penalty for not.