Posted on 04/11/2014 10:51:50 AM PDT by grundle
The government is now going through old records to see if it overpaid people on Social Security. If it thinks it did, it can now seize the IRS tax refund checks of the CHILDREN of those people it thinks it overpaid.
This isn't a proposal—it's already happening. For the past three years, the government has been confiscating hundreds of thousands of Americans' tax refunds, according to the Washington Post. It has already confiscated $1.9 billion in tax refunds this year alone.
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Can’t blame this one on the Rats. The law was changed in 2011 under Boehner.
Tell it to the unborn who will be burdened with trillions of dollars in debt from the day they are birthed.
Gee how could this possibly go wrong?!?!
The law was changed in 2008 under Pelosi. In 2011 the current admin started to make use of it in this way.
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