FREEPER LISTENHILLARY POSTED: half of all US households receive some type of government benefit. Now a CBS 21 News investigation has enumerated the govt freebies available......paid for by taxpayers.
Reporter Chris Papst worked with a single mom who had two children.
The mother turned down a raise because the extra money would decrease her government benefits.....she admits living a life off the government. “If you’re going to get something for free, are you going to work for it?” Cogan explained. “It kind of like sucks you in.”
Here are some of the horrific details For this story, CBS 21 researched government programs available to a single mother of two making $19,000 a year.
Incredibly, govt freebies available to her include:
<>>< $14,976 in free day care,
<><> another $13,400 for Head Start and Early Head Start,
<><> $7,148 in housing vouchers,
<><> $6,500 for weatherization projects,
<><> $400 to pay heating bills,
<><> $480 a year for a cell phone,
<><> an extra $230 for a land line,
<><> $182 in free legal advice.
The family would get:
<><> more than $6,028 in food assistance
<><> another $6,045 in medical assistance.
<><> The needy mother is eligible for $5,500 school Pell Grants,
<><> an additional $12,000 for Education Opportunity Grant; SMART Grant; and TEACH Grant.
<><> $6,800 in tax credits,
<><> $1,900 in withholding would be returned.
That adds up to $81,589 in free govt assistance....paid for by stuggling taxpayers.
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The endless govt freebies available---enumerated above ----does not stop vote-crazed pols from devising new ways to suckup for votes. MORE BELOW
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 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.
Reid sad: “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.
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An anonymous Indiana tax consultant revealed that several returns filed by illegal aliens were successfully claiming ACTC tax refunds of as much as $1000 for as many as a dozen dependents. “Here’s a return right here: we’ve got a $10,300 refund for nine nieces and nephews,” he said. “We’re getting an $11,000 refund on this tax return. There’s seven nieces and nephews,” he added, pointing to another set of documents. “I can bring out stacks and stacks. It’s just so easy it’s ridiculous.”
A single illegal alien living at a southern Indiana home used by four more illegals who didn’t live there. Despite that reality, those workers claimed 20 children as dependents—and the IRS sent them checks totaling $29,608.
(snip) a single address in Atlanta, GA had 23,994 ITIN-related tax refunds sent to it. In another instance, 8,393 ITIN refunds were deposited into a single bank account. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58561
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ACTION NOW--CALL YOUR REP---The House repeatedly has passed an IRS bill that could save U.S. taxpayers up to $24.4 billion 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.
Though the GOP-controlled House has passed Rep 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.