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Here's the issue. A legislator is proposing to NOT make the state tax credit available to families who have adopted away from the state of Missouri or internationally, citing that we take money away from families who do adopt from within the state and if we're no longer eligible more families will adopt from within the state.
My feeling is if adoption's in your heart it's in your heart and whether you pursue this state or that or internationally, that's also within your heart. The tax credit has nothing to do with it. We do, however, plan to use ours to pay for our international adoption as we do not make enough to get the full federal credit and, of course, the costs of adopting exceeded those credits and wouldn't have stopped us, but I still think they're not seeing the full picture.
Lisa
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