[Cincinatus' Wife]

So, their EITC - Earned Income Tax CREDIT was docked?

That's not coming from a "tax refund" (except in accounting land where a small increase is considered a cut if it doesn't pass a certain threshold).

I guess Obamacare is eyeballing the $55B annual windfall going to the "working poor."

Which brings to mind, "If they're big enough to give you everything, they're big enough to take it away."

[laplata]

Surprise, surprise. /s

[Reddy]

Wait- were they told to pay it back or did they really pay it back.

Probably what you said, they got less “free” money on their tax “refund” than they expected.

[Secret Agent Man]

The Free $h1t crowd thought this was gonna be “free”.

Now they’re just $h1tting themselves.

[Secret Agent Man]

Well, we were warning them.

They were telling us to go eff ourselves because we were racist.

[Yaelle]

The way this is written, it makes it seem like the govt is Santa Claus, and a tax refund is a human right.

[Veggie Todd]

They’ll still vote ‘Rat because it’s the Republican’s fault.

[grania]

I'm a bit confused. If this the free money they're given every year, it's being redirected back to the gov, not to reduce the deficit, but for health care. If that's the case, it would've been money low-income folk would tend to spend locally. It will decimate already difficult budgeting.

Economically, money is draining out of local economies and upward. Money going to people who will spend all of it locally is the best possible start to a solution to what's happening.