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US seizing tax refunds of children over parents' debt?!
CNBC ^ | April 11, 2014 | Jake Novak

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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To: Cementjungle

Can’t blame this one on the Rats. The law was changed in 2011 under Boehner.


21 posted on 04/11/2014 1:30:24 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Pollster1

Tell it to the unborn who will be burdened with trillions of dollars in debt from the day they are birthed.


22 posted on 04/11/2014 1:32:23 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: grundle

Gee how could this possibly go wrong?!?!


23 posted on 04/11/2014 3:03:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Can’t blame this one on the Rats. The law was changed in 2011 under Boehner.

The law was changed in 2008 under Pelosi. In 2011 the current admin started to make use of it in this way.

24 posted on 04/11/2014 4:58:15 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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