Posted on 10/30/2013 7:37:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, left, wants to end the practice of giving illegal immigrants tax credits for kids, but U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., won’t let the House-approved measure H.R. 556 through the Senate.
"The System is Working Fine" says Senator Harry Reid, even though the Joint Committee on Taxation calculates that enactment of H.R. 556 would save taxpayers $24.4 billion over the next decade.
The House of Representatives repeatedly has passed an IRS bill that could save U.S. taxpayers up to $24.4 billion over the next 10 years — but Harry Reid’s Democratic Senate will not hear it.
The Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act, or H.R. 556, would require tax filers to provide Social Security numbers to claim child tax credits.
Currently, the IRS allows undocumented residents to collect the $1,000 credits for dependents not even living in the country. Watchdog reported that illegal immigrants received $4.2 billion from the tax agency in just one year.
“My bill (targets) billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse. Instead of hitting up taxpayers for even more taxes, Washington needs to go after these billions of dollars,” said U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas.
Though the GOP-controlled House has passed Johnson’s measure three times, Senate Majority Leader Reid, D-Nev., refuses to allow the bill to come up for a vote in his chamber.
“The IRS has been doling out the credit to tax filers claiming children who do not even live in the country,” Johnson charged.
Tax preparers agree that the system is broken — and that the IRS must fix it. They say the agency has to stop disbursing ACTC refunds based on Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, which are available to undocumented residents.
Tax preparers told Watchdog they have seen clients from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua claiming Mexican children as dependents.
A 2009 TIGTA audit concluded that the child tax credit “appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the U.S. without authorization, which contradicts Federal law and policy to remove such incentives.”
Johnson’s bill would impose a 10-year ban on tax filers who commit fraud and a $500 penalty on tax preparers who knowingly bilk taxpayers through the ACTC program.
“I just think the child tax credit is working just fine, and there’s no need to punish children,” the Democratic leader told the Associated Press in February.
Better Ideas
Johnson’s bill would impose a 10-year ban on tax filers who commit fraud and a $500 penalty on tax preparers who "knowingly" bilk taxpayers through the ACTC program.
Proving that a tax preparer "knowingly" sent in a fraudulent return would be next to impossible. What if we paid tax preparers $250 for every illegal immigrant removed from the system?
Active incentives to weed out existing fraud would certainly work better than passive incentives to stop further abuse. If Johnson's bill would save $24 billion, my idea would surely save more.
One could reasonably go further and kill the program in entirety.
Hypocricy and Partisan Politics
One would hope that with budget deficits wildly out of control and with interest on the nation's debt piling up even with historic low interest rates, that common sense measures to save $24 billion would get easy passage.
But such hopes are dashed on the hard rocks of partisan politics. What one party wants, the other doesn't.
Moreover, I am quite sure enough Democrats would vote for this bill if they were allowed. But they aren't. Reid has blocked the measure.
Recall the outrage by Senator Reid, the media, and the Democrats when House Speaker John Boehner would not allow a vote on a clean budget resolution bill.
Now Reid is doing the same thing, and it's costing taxpayers $24 billion. Where's the media outrage?
another example of building a voting block
Are there words profane enough for this scum?
When will the Repubs EVER fight ???
Obviously
Probably, but it’s best to keep to one’s self
Hey, I’ve got 50 kids living outside the USA. Where’s my loot?
The GOP has been fighting tooth and nail..... against conservatives.
/johnny
Maybe when we get the majority back.
Will you help us, or will you just complain and bitch?
Its ok though, we in the middle class have deep pockets.
It is hard to imagine a human soul so corrupt and so evil as to betray his heritage for money, power and control.
He is utterly devoid of honor, patriotism and respect for the people (the net taxpayers) of this country.
I hope God has a special room in Hell planned for this man.
I bet Paul Ryan does too.
We need to tie Reid and the pro-amnesty crowd to immigrant invaders' rising tide of lawlessness....AND the calculated plan to undermine US ntl security, and the safety and security of all Americans.
In America we value civility and consider our laws sacrosanct and inviolate. The utter contempt these invaders hold for America and American law was never more virulent.
The rising immigrant lawlessness underlines that these are violent, conniving invaders---- establishing a separate country with their own laws on US soil ---- EXCEPT---the greed-fueled invaders are using OUR tax dollars to foment the takeover.....aided and abetted by Reid and the pro-amnesty pimps.
The invaders are being coached by Mexico and other Third Worlds to undermine US ntl security and tear down democracy.
Clearly the pressure is building across the border, as conniving Mexico pushes North to begin Reconquista. Reid, Obama and the like, are facilitating the invasion---they hate America as much as the invaders do.
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Let's not forget---the Mexican border is the staging area for global terrorists, the criminal latino uderworld, Third World lowlifes, drug cartels, savage latinos, and the like..... come to Mexico to crossover into the US. It's open season to conduct dirty deeds. Vicious Mexican gangs and drug cartels are operating freely across the border, setting up shop, right under the noses of vote-crazed US pols who will do anything to stay in power.
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BACKSTORY In recent weeks we have seen illegal invaders use chains and pipes to tie themselves to buses that carry immigrant invaders slated for deportation to court, block traffic on Capitol Hill and get arrested, surround Tucson police when they targeted two immigrants during a traffic stop, and chain themselves and block the entrance of a federal detention center.More such actions, they vow, are coming.
harry go a hold of a case of botox....wasnt sure how to use it....and thus started snorting it....
When they have the majority they are even weaker.
The price of a vote for the Marxists has really skyrocketed over the years. It used to be just a beer at the corner saloon, now its thousands of dollars at the public trough. God save the Republic!
Do we even know if these kids even exist? The lengths they will go to give OPM to demographic groups, only so they can reliably live on the Dem plantation in the future is astounding. Surely there can be no logical argument for Reid’s position beyond it being good for plantation building ? Righties should run with this one - its seems a no brainer winner.
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US Dept of the Treasury Says Illegal Aliens Collecting Billions in Tax Credits According to the US Dept of Treasury’s Inspector General, more than $4.2 billion in additional child credits were paid out in 2010 to illegal immigrants. In 2005, the pay outs totaled $924 million.
This program allows low income earners to claim a $1,000 per child credit. $20 billion EITC is estimated to have been paid out to these cunning "impoverished" illegals.
Most of them are collecting over and over again-----using multiple identities-----falsifying official apps---claiming children they do not have and/or falsely stating kids are back in their homelands.
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DUH Reid and amnesty pimps aiding and abetting felonies.
REFERENCE March 8, 2012 KENNER, La. -- Kenner police arrested illegal Marvin Baca who sold false W-2 forms to another illegal immigrant for $1,500. Baca sold fraudulent W-2 forms for $1,500 to other Hispanics here illegally.
Police said that on one of the forged W-2 forms had a SS no of a person living in Virginia. Police said illegal Hispanics purchase fictitious W-2 forms and file false tax returns with the government to receive EITC refunds. Baca was charged with one count of ID theft and two counts of forgery.
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IRS knowingly sends Billions in Fraudulent Refunds to Illegal Immigrants
Town Hall ^ | Mar 30, 2013 | Bob Beauprez / FR Posted by Texas Fossil
A WTHR-TV Indianapolis investigative report exposes a fraudulent scheme wherein the IRS is sending $4.2 billion per year to illegal immigrants as an "additional child tax credit" for children who don't even live in the U.S. Further, the IRS and Congress have been ignoring the scheme for years. The Inspector General's office has repeatedly identified the problem in audit after audit. The IG, Russell George says, "The magnitude of the problem has grown exponentially," but the IRS is doing nothing to stop it. "It's so easy it's ridiculous," the tax preparer whistleblower who exposed the fraud admits.
Names are simply listed on the IRS form. "The more you put on there, the more you get back." No questions asked…the check's in the mail. Video on youtube of this shocking report. (Excerpt) Read more at finance.townhall.com
I hope God has a special room in Hell planned for this man.
I hope he has a reservation sooner rather than later
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