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Congress eliminates child tax credit and EITC from tax code (Hoax)
The Richmond Voice ^ | November 18, 2014

Posted on 11/18/2014 8:53:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Kickass Conservative

Satire..... yes.


41 posted on 11/19/2014 2:23:12 AM PST by maddog55
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FINALLY!

The Earned Income Credit is the most fraud-ridden part of the tax code. The Mortgage Interest Deduction actually pays people for going in debt. The Child Tax Credit can be debated, but I’m ok with it, given this level of clean-up.

And I agree, ecomonic growth will go THROUGH THE ROOF, now that people have more incentive to actually work.


42 posted on 11/19/2014 2:29:34 AM PST by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: BobL

The mortgage interest deduction incentivices home ownership; if you want to see a world without that look at the Ferguson situation - people with nothing to lose, who will foul another nest when the area is destroyed.

Companies get all kinds of deductions from their income; as long as they do people should as well.


43 posted on 11/19/2014 2:47:04 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action isa economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A lot of homeowners factor these deductions into their home buying decisions, with an income tax return paying the property tax bill or some other large expense. I'd think this could generate another wave of foreclosures.

Meanwhile....the list of what the 'pubs were given the majority in DC to get done is quite long. One of them was to balance the budget by cutting spending, not by further impoverishing the middle class. What happens to their thought process once they get to DC?

44 posted on 11/19/2014 3:13:09 AM PST by grania
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To: moovova

“I call BS.”

Yeah, it is. But, speaking only for myself, I’m ok with it should it happen. A couple of years ago I refinanced. Now have 2.25% on a ten year note. So, my interest expense is not significant.


45 posted on 11/19/2014 3:16:56 AM PST by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What are the odds of Obama signing such a bill?


46 posted on 11/19/2014 3:23:52 AM PST by monocle
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To: grania

A lot of people factor Obamacare into decisions, too.


47 posted on 11/19/2014 3:47:59 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Sacajaweau

mortgage interest is now an “entitlement”

No worries that so many homeowners took on the 30 year debt obligation based on the interest part being deductible, the 1% pays cash for real estate anyway

Boo Hoo so sad? Well then, run your businesses without me. I will have thousands less to spend.

The repercussions of this on the family budgets and economy will sink Ryan.

Good riddance

But he may be giving the democrats a hail Mary to claw their way back to the top


48 posted on 11/19/2014 4:08:04 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

In my area housing is already collapsing because Americans have stopped breeding (and therefore have no need to tie themselves to 30 years of payments to an area that is already withering on the vine). New consructions are built to accomodate yuppies and their dogs (nobody else has any money), and it is hoped the illegals here will occupy the existing housing stock as Americans flee (they can rent them).

I believe the mortgage interest deduction is here to stay for a long time just as low interest rates are because the government desperately needs to get people into homes; the economy is built around it, and is collapsing with it de-stabilized.


49 posted on 11/19/2014 4:21:11 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action isa economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is getting harder and harder to tell satire from reality.


50 posted on 11/19/2014 4:30:59 AM PST by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Satire, of course.

But, I am in favor of all of these.
We got rid of interest deductions for just about everything else. It should be eliminated because it distorts the market.
Folks like it because it makes homes “more affordable”.
If we didn’t have it, prices would come down and the homes would be “more affordable”.
This could only be accomplished over an extended time frame, like eliminating Social Security and other schemes.
Over time, I bet most folks would gladly trade the interest deduction for a ~40% lower home price.


51 posted on 11/19/2014 4:38:50 AM PST by Macoozie (1) Win the Senate 2) Repeal Obamacare 3) Impeach Roberts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think you should have this removed.

It isn’t even satire. It’s simply fake.


52 posted on 11/19/2014 4:43:32 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Ferguson: America's crash course in what 'community organizers' actually do.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Links?


53 posted on 11/19/2014 4:45:54 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Links to what?


54 posted on 11/19/2014 4:48:24 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Ferguson: America's crash course in what 'community organizers' actually do.)
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To: EternalVigilance

You claim that this is an incorrect or satirical column, yet you offer me no proof to take to admin.


55 posted on 11/19/2014 4:56:13 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, you posted it.

Can you provide anything at all that would show that any of these absolutely earth-shaking events actually have occurred?


56 posted on 11/19/2014 5:14:19 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Ferguson: America's crash course in what 'community organizers' actually do.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Yeah, the article.


57 posted on 11/19/2014 5:16:52 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah. The fake article.

Surely you can provide some other links to other sources for such gargantuan news, right?


58 posted on 11/19/2014 5:22:22 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Ferguson: America's crash course in what 'community organizers' actually do.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And sites like “the National Report” don’t count. lol...


59 posted on 11/19/2014 5:22:57 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Ferguson: America's crash course in what 'community organizers' actually do.)
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To: EternalVigilance
I've read all the comments and am glad to see that no one blamed the atrocious, E.I.T.C. on the democrats. It's a republican thing.

First proposed by Nixon, signed into law by Ford and increased under every administration since, without exception.

60 posted on 11/19/2014 6:51:01 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Eccl 12 V.13)
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