It’s time to clean up all this handouts including to illegals.
2/24/2012 6:00:00 AM
Kingman Letter: Tax credits for illegal aliens
In the past few days there has been a lot of noise from Democrats, especially Harry Reid, about the Republicans’ plan to deny child tax credits to illegal aliens.
The Treasury Department has said that in 2010 more than $4 billion in child credit refunds went to 2.3 million people who filed tax returns, but did not have Social Security numbers proving they were citizens or legal workers in the United States. That is four times what it was five years ago.
You wonder why our country is going broke. All you have to do to collect all “the goodies” the Americans are willing to give away to illegal aliens is to cross our border (which is so easy that thousands do it every month). More and more illegal aliens are now filing tax returns claiming this refundable credit, which they are not legally entitled to.
The Republicans want to tighten eligibility by requiring those who claim this federal credit to have Social Security numbers to prove they are legal workers. The Democrats say this is unfair to the illegal aliens. Excuse me. What part of this makes any sense? We, the United States of America, are broke. We do not have the money to take care of our own citizens yet the Democrats want to keep giving our hard earned tax money to illegal aliens.
That makes as much sense as the Obama Administration stopping the Keystone Pipeline. After all, that would only have given jobs to about 20 thousand out of work legal American citizens, kept our fuel costs from rising to prices the economy cannot afford and kept the United States from contributing to the wealth of our enemies.
Sandee Samoska
Kingman
http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubsectionID=73&ArticleID=49358
Wage earners who do not have Social Security numbers and are not authorized to work in the United States can use what the IRS calls individual taxpayer identification numbers. Often these result in fraudulent claims on tax returns, auditors found.
Their data showed that 72 percent of returns filed with taxpayer identification numbers claimed the child tax credit.
The audit recommended that the IRS seek clarification on the law and check the immigration status of filers with taxpayer indentificaion numbers.
IRS officials, in response to a draft of the report, agreed to consult with the Treasury Department on the law. But they said they have no legal authority to demand that filers prove their legal status when the tax agency processes returns.