[telebob]

The Earned Income Tax Credit is welfare for the working poor, period. If you don't have an income obligation to pay taxes but claim dependents, you get a subsidy from the government to help you keep breeding.

This same outcry occured with last summers' rebates. "How come I got no rebate check like real tax payers?"

It is to laugh....

[Orangedog]

My ex-wife has been gaming the system on this for years. She will only work until she gets close to the income for the maximum pay-out for two kids (one is mine, the other is from her 3rd marriage...she's on #4 now...lucky me, I was victim #1). The inflated "child" support she gets for two kids is not only tax free, but doesn't count against her for the working-class welfare check from the IRS.

Late last year, me and victim #3 both received letters from the IRS because she claimed both kids on her taxes for 2001, even though both he and I both managed to get the tax deductions our respective kids for odd numbered tax years. Within a few days of each other, we both sent the IRS copies of the divorce decrees, pointing out that she was not entitled to claim kids that year. That was about 7 months ago and neither one of us has heard anything. I don't know about him, but my tax refund ( and I paid in a hell of a lot more than I got back) was direct deposited into my bank account two weeks after e-filing with no problems. I wonder if they are going to make her pay back the $3000-$4000 worth of tax credit money they paid her?