Posted on 11/17/2021 5:58:16 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
It’s not hard to hide things in a 2,135-page document, and that is exactly what the Democrats tried to do in their new spending bill.
It has already been quite a fight for the Biden administration to get Democrats to back the $1.75 trillion bill. There was disagreement over the timing of the bill and its relation to the rest of the president’s Build Back Better plan.
But now the discovery of a provision, tucked on page 1647, may cause even more disagreement over the legislation.
The provision would end the requirement of a Social Security number in order to get child tax credits. This would mean that billions of dollars could be doled out in child tax to credit to just about anyone. Illegal immigrants would be able to claim child tax credits with this new provision.
“No credit shall be allowed under this section to a taxpayer with respect to any qualifying child unless the taxpayer includes the name and taxpayer identification number of such qualifying child,” current law regarding child tax credits stipulates.
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Steven Camarota, a researcher with the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News he estimates that repealing this requirement could lead to about an extra $2.3 billion in payouts to illegal immigrants for child tax credits.
Camarota also estimated a big payout for all the illegal immigrants who have U.S.-born children.
“[W]e estimated that illegal immigrants would receive $8.2 billion in cash payments from the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC), which is part of budget reconciliation bill, also referred to as the Build Back Better (BBB) Act,” Camarota wrote for CIS.
This massive spike in payouts is also a result of the new program increasing the child tax credit maximum payment.
“The new program significantly increases the maximum cash payment, which is referred to as a ‘refundable credit,’ from $1,400 per child under the old ACTC to $3,600 for children under six, and $3,000 for children six to 17. The new CTC is only extended for one year in the BBB, after which the maximum for all children would be $2,000,” Camarota wrote.
But even if the CTC payout decreases again next year, the payouts will still be significantly higher if the requirement of a Social Security number is eliminated.
“The elimination of the SSN requirement also allows the more than 600,000 illegal immigrants encountered at the border in family units or as unaccompanied minors and released in FY 2021 to receive cash payments from the new CTC,” Camarota wrote.
These CTC payouts are not be confused, however, with Biden’s previous idea to pay those immigrant families that were separated at the border because they “deserve some kind of compensation.”
This amount of payouts for child tax credits is going to be damaging. Keeping the whole immigration argument out of it, just on the financial side this kind of extra spending is irresponsible.
Biden’s whole bill is already $1.75 trillion, and the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the whole Build Back Better plan could massively increase the deficit.
“CBO estimates that enacting this title would result in a net increase in the deficit totaling $150.7 billion over the 2022-2031 period. That increase in the deficit would result from an increase in direct spending of $151.5 billion and an increase in revenues of $0.8 billion,” the CBO announced Monday.
Despite all this, though, Democrats still seem to be determined to pass this spending bill this week.
“Yes, we intend — that is our plan to pass the bill the week of Nov. 15, as is indicated in our statements that were made at the time of passing the infrastructure bill, and we’re very proud of that,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Nov. 9, according to the New York Post.
So in the midst of our economy still hobbled and recovering from COVID, and inflation hitting a 30 year high, Democrats want to throw billions more away.
They are not throwing billions away, they’re buying votes until they can get totalitarian rule. Actually, it’s genius and no one has the will to stop them.
Those Republicans who helped this pass all knew this.
Uh, TRILLIONS.
Senator Lankford said this morning that there is a provision for 300,000 new hires in the new “Green conservation corps”.
Also 2.5 billion for “tree equity”? Equal rights for trees? Install apples on oak trees, its not fair oaks don’t have fruit. This bill is full of paybacks for election workers and donors.
I have a friend who is an hispanic American citizen, born here ~30:years ago, and proud American. He was dating someone earlier year who is an illegal alien, who works as a fairly unqualified aide at a nursing home.
He was furious at her and ended up breaking up when she told him the IRS sent her a check for 30k, but she wouldn’t tell him what it was for. He said that was at least as much as she makes in a year, so it couldn’t have been any sort of typical “refund” on taxes paid, so who knows.
He said she was blowing the money left and right which gave him the impression she was expecting it to be a yearly thing. Adios he told her, and the whole thing made him even more of a conservative.
This ties into the vaccine mandate. An underlying scheme to replace citizen workers that refused to take the jab by all theses new immigrants.
The country is being hijacked in plain sight.
I thought it was on page 666.
30,000.00 . From the IRS. To an illegal alien.
Yes, she votes.
Just wow. Then, they get on the phone and call relatives and friends and tell them to get up here. It is all according to plan.
I trust younger voters know that they will have to pay for all of the gifts to illegals, welfare, housing, food, clothing, medical care, education and criminal detention. This, along with the increased debt service due to inflation, should raise taxes substantially.
I trust younger voters know that they will have to pay for all of the gifts to illegals, welfare, housing, food, clothing, medical care, education and criminal detention. This, along with the increased debt service due to inflation, should raise taxes substantially.
Yep, it became obvious to him that she had been using him, to help her get situated here as she didn’t speak English that well, but he said as soon as she got that check she started cutting him off including by not telling him what the money was supposedly for.
As a side note- We have a very nice Mexican restaurant here close to my house, which has always been one of my favorite places to go watch a game, or catch a quick dinner in the bar. This place is pretty upscale so the riff faff was never there until the last year or so, when young hispanics started showing up. I actually asked for my check and left early the other night when so many came pouring in, all speaking spanish so loudly around me I couldn’t even relax. This was a Monday, and they were all blowing money at the bar like they just got paid, maybe they did but my friend’s story makes me wonder.
I am of the opinion that if there were a requirement for each bill to be short & contain only one item to be considered, that a lot of this crap could be eliminated. It is obvious why bills are so long & complicated. Those doing this need to be called out if we want our country to get back to what it was originally intended to be.
I am of the opinion that if there were a requirement for each bill to be short & contain only one item to be considered, that a lot of this crap could be eliminated. It is obvious why bills are so long & complicated. Those doing this need to be called out if we want our country to get back to what it was originally intended to be.
Greasy thumb Biden’s $1.75 trillion bill per the C.B.O. says it already at 4.5 trillion maybe more.
It won’t cost anything huh
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