Bullcrap! Nobody making $20,000 per year pays $5,544, not even one red cent in income taxes. Not even this much in payroll taxes. This is just bullcrap to make us sorry for them and their cause. Damn liars.
You're right. I have a friend who makes about $20,000 per year with his retirement plan and he pays no taxes, he**, he doesn't even have to file after all is said and done, at least that is what he tells me, and if he did pay taxes it wouldn't be 5,544. A couple with 2 kids at that income level would only file in order to get the unearned credit. In fact, if I recall correctly, if you pay taxes at all you don't qualify for the credit. This whole article is a BS sob story designed to work up sympathy for illegal blood suckers.