This is a particularly egregious socialist subsidy. If you have kids, pay for them yourself.
**The tax group also took aim at Santorum’s suggestion to triple the tax deduction families can take for each child.**
“This is a particularly egregious socialist subsidy. If you have kids, pay for them yourself.”
___________________ Among the Tax-takers (getting tattoos on their backsides)
American Thinker ^ | Earl Wright
....I can’t talk specifics about my time at the IRS, but here are some generalities. Those claiming EITC also qualify for other so-called refundable credits (how can something be refundable when nothing is paid in the first place?). The typical 1040 would show an income of between $12,000 to $18,000 for the year. It was usually accompanied by one W-2 with the income earned almost always by a female. With other refundable credits listed, a “refund” would be claimed of between $6,000 and $9,000.
And these people believe that is their money; they have a right to it. I fielded a telephone query from a woman who didn’t even say hello, but blurted, “I haven’t got my taxes.” For an instant I thought she meant that she didn’t have enough money to pay her taxes, but I quickly realized she was talking about her “refund.” We newbies learned that those who pay taxes have a general fear of calling the IRS and tend to be nice on the telephone, while those who don’t pay any taxes believe they are entitled and are not always pleasant to deal with. We also learned these aren’t the brightest people on the planet with many signing their refund over to a tax-preparer and then claiming they didn’t know they had done that. (The “instant refund” scam perpetrated by many storefront tax-preparers is a whole other story.)
...A golfing buddy said his girlfriend’s daughter claims EITC among other things and received a U.S. government check for $6,000. She used the money to take her toddler daughter and the child’s ne’er-do-well father to the Monterey Bay Aquarium — a couple hundred bucks — and spent the remainder for a giant tattoo on her back. I’m so glad I could help....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2753527/posts?page=1 PS: EITC Campaign Strategy 2011
Letter from Department of Social Services:
The Goal of the EITC Campaign is to:
Cut the number of Californians who miss out on the EITC in half by 2013 by ensuring that 400,000 more Californians apply for the EITC than in 2009.
EITC 2011 Campaign Strategy - cont’d
http://www.cafoodbanks.org/EITC.html