Worse, the credit would not help the 40 percent of America's elderly population with incomes too low to be taxed.

These credits can help a homebuyer qualify for a little "bigger" (more expensive)home.

Yes, credit easing will certainly help provide banks with the ability to lend.

The credit could help lower-income families only if it was refundable - paid even to those who owed no taxes.

Those credits helped produce a high rate of inflation and slowed the painful transition to a market economy.

She welcomes the idea that the universal credit will help incentivise work - and lift people out of poverty.

These credits help reduce an individual's or business' overall state tax liability.

"The credits help us," a proponent of the move said.

Such credits can help people to get out of a crisis if they are capable of doing so.

But the credits have helped lure the industry.