[usconservative]

The EITC is probably the biggest source of fraud among taxpayers. Since EITC fraud is often a lot easier to prove than some of the more complex stuff, IRS enforcement dollars spent here can generate a correspondingly larger amount of dollars restored to the US treasury.

Seems to me the quickest way to end this FRAUD and ILLEGAL RE-DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH is to eliminate the EITC. While we're at it, get rid of the f'ing IRS TOO!!

Why should *I* have to pay a higher tax rate to fund someone who can't even make enough money to pay taxes?

Far as I'm concerned, the IRS can and SHOULD crack-down on these EITC cheats! I'm sick and damn' tired of the damn' tax code taking away MY money to re-distribute to so-called working "poor!"

ENOUGH ALREADY! I'm sick and damn' tired of being penalized for being successful and making a good living, while some SLOTH gets my money via the EITC for sitting on his/her ass, or not being smart enough to advance themselves.

[Dianna]

In the early years of the EITC, there were problems with military families claiming it.

I read the stupid tax book and it said very clearly that non-cash benefits had to be figured in before one could qualify. We never qualified because we lived in Navy housing. That didn't stop everyone my husband worked with, the neighbors, and HR and R Block from trying to get me to claim it.

Within a couple of years they began listing the amount of the housing benefit on the tax forms.