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They [the reform's costs] also do NOT include revenue losses and outlays for the Earned Income Tax Credit, which we will be getting from the Joint Tax Committee and which results largely from the conditional non-immigrant provisions. Those revenue losses and Earned Income Tax Credit outlays may be significant.

Does that mean what I think it does? If so then I say again, we CANNOT afford to have the ILLEGAL aliens "pay" their back / future taxes!

. . .you will see that they [the "cheap" labor] fall in the classic earned income tax credit range . . . The average recipient gets $2,400 a year by way of a tax credit.

Yes, I think it means what I've always thought would happen.

It's called government subsidized "cheap" labor for American businessmen who hate government interference.. er, well, most interference.

Don't forget to budget for the millions and millions of relatives of the "regularized" workers -- regularized workers hate being alone.

Remember to put SSA on alert.. those regularized workers will need to have their years of W-2 data all transferred from the Earnings Suspense File to the SSA Earnings Master File when they get their shiny new SS numbers.