From Fox:Illegal immigrants could receive more than $7 billion this year in federal tax credits, according to one estimate, thanks to a loophole in the law that allows people not authorized to work to reap the government payments with no questions asked.
Sen. Jeff Sessions' office calculated that, based on recent trends, illegal immigrants could receive roughly $7.4 billion through a provision known as the Additional Child Tax Credit. That's more than quadruple what the payout was four years ago, but the payments have been steadily increasing over the past decade.
Though illegal immigrants are prohibited from receiving similar tax credits, a quirk in the law allows them to qualify for the child tax credit. And it's a "refundable" credit, meaning recipients can reap the money -- with average checks totaling about $1,800 -- even if they've paid no taxes.
Illegal immigrants can qualify because even people not authorized to work in the U.S. are supposed to file returns with the IRS. If they don't have a Social Security number, they are provided what's known as an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number in order to file returns.
And those filers are not excluded from claiming the Additional Child Tax Credit, which is offered to some families with children under 17 years old.
18 comments:
I guess we should let them opt out of the billions more they end up paying in taxes in the first place then. For example, it's estimated that california and Texas combined receive over $3 billion in tax revenue from illegal immigrants.
You mean compared to the hundreds of billions they suck up in services?
o c'mon now. that is only a democrat party thing to redistribute the wealth.
Sure another creative democrat angle - give illegals billions in tax credits for billions in taxes never paid? Get real - since when are illegals going to file a tax return if they don't even bother to come here legally? Is everyone going insane! Now as Obama wants to make the existing group almost legal so that this group can work and pay taxes - the employer will no longer have an incentive to keep them on staff since they will cost too much! Thus all these illegals will land exactly where they want to be WELFARE & FREE EVERYTHING! Maybe that is the tax credit to be received! AND don't forget, this will encourage huge waves of illegals behind them to line up to obtain the same! ENFORCE THE LAW!
"Illegal immigrants..."
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According to our Dem pols, they are not illegal, just "undocumented immigrants"
Well folks, YOU are the Democratic stalwarts and you can look the other way while the little critters come aboard and eat the hull of the ship of state.
But hell, they make great photo ops for the tweeding Democrats don't they?
After all, the essence of 'to tweed' is to pander to immigrants.
While I certainly do not approve of illegal immigrants (as a Native American I REALLY have some issues with this!) it must be pointed out that SOMEONE is hiring illegals - and in that role is aiding and abetting . . . we've ended up with a political quagmire: one side gets slammed for the millions spent on services (treating illegals as human beings)while the other gets to hire dirt cheap, highly controllable labor. Close the damn borders: let's find something else to bicker about. This is getting old already.
The answer is...NATIONAL IDENTY cards for all...
WITH FINGERPRINTS and photos attached!
Anyone caught without papers gets deported!
And F--K all you liberals!
Anon No. 8:
Isn't it wonderful when we can have calm and rational discussion of the issues that concern us?
And it's spelled "Identity."
Oh, pardon me for the typo.
Yes indeed...it is "Identity" and not "identy".
I stand corrected.
One point for the asshole liberal.
However, my message rings loud and true.
Perhaps it's too loud for your delicate ear drums.
My ears are far from delicate, bub. It's just that I know how to discuss an issue without sounding like I've never gotten beyond the third grade. It goes without saying that you can take your insults and place them inside one of your orifices.
Then why use use the term "oriface" when you could have just said "ass" ...that is...if your delicate sensibilities would have permitted you to do so?
You are going far out of your way to appear highbrow.
The truth be told,
and I guess that "3rd grader" touched a highly sensitive nerve!
From the mouths of babes, indeed!
And from which university do you hold your degree... fella...Taipei U or Bogata Tech?
10 4...over and out!
Oops...I meant Bogota.
Don't want that angry liberal on my oriface again.
Anon No. 13:
I did it to be funny, pal. You guys have no sense of humor.
Anon No. 14/15: In Queens, bub. Born and raised here. Where did you drop out of high school from?
NYU...just like you!
I know who you are,
so don't screw around...lest I out you.
Nah...never...I'm just joking too.
If you know who I am, what did I major in at the college I went to (not NYU!!!)?
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