Posted on 02/11/2015 5:13:07 PM PST by jazusamo
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress on Wednesday that even illegal immigrants who didn’t pay taxes will be able to claim back-refunds once they get Social Security numbers under President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty.
The revelation — which contradicts what he told Congress last week — comes as lawmakers also raised concerns Mr. Obama’s amnesty could open a window to illegal immigrants finding ways to vote, despite it being against the law.
“While we may disagree about whether your deferred action programs were lawfully created and implemented, we are confident that we can all agree that these programs cannot be permitted to impair the integrity of our elections,” Republican members of Congress from Ohio wrote in a letter to Mr. Obama Wednesday, ahead of a hearing on the issue in the House on Thursday.
Mr. Obama’s new deportation policies, which carve most illegal immigrants out of danger of being removed, and could proactively grant as many as 4 million illegal immigrants work permits and Social Security numbers, are increasingly under fire for ancillary consequences such as tax credits and competition for jobs.
Mr. Koskinen, testifying to the House oversight committee, said the White House never asked him or anyone else at the IRS about the potential tax effects of his amnesty policy.
“I haven’t talked to the White House about this at all,” he said.
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I’ve little doubt you’re right. If the Rats keep the WH in 2016 I wouldn’t be surprised if 5 million or more illegals become citizens before 2020.
The only way that might happen is if he went after The Reverend Al Sharpton.
Our RULERS (they are NOT our leaders) in the Obama Regime are nothing more than an anti-American criminal enterprise.
Up to $24000 for every illegal coming here to take a law abiding American’s job...... Priceless!
And no one is stopping it! It’s as though all who are elected to serve us are following a script. They throw in a pretense of standing for American citizens just to provide drama in the play, but are in reality all working towards the same end...eliminating America as it was founded. And we get to pay for the whole stinking process.
Article “IRS to pay back-refunds to illegal immigrants who didn’t pay taxes”
IIRC you uncovered a law about changes to SSN requiring several years notice to Congress
Gonna be a bunch of wealthy and drunk hispanics out there driving round. Los Estados Unidos! Whadda country! The Land of the Free Stuff.
Congress needs to pass a bill not allowing past refund collection for the illegals granted amnesty. This is crazy.
There’s little doubt there’ll be celebrationes when those unearned EITC checks start rolling in.
Yep, it’s absolutely crazy.
Why does that matter?
Where have you been the last 7 years?
Generations of welfare recipients including illegal aliens, with zero income, have been receiving "earned income 'refund' checks" for at least 7 years...
Who the F in DC is going to Prison for this shit!@!
It's worse than anyone realizes.
Exemption from Obamacare penalty is automatic for illegal aliens, professional welfare recipients, felons in prison, and the "homeless," but if you are unwillingly unemployed, and can't afford insurance, but your retired husband on social security can manage to maintain the household without eviction, foreclosures, bankruptcy, repossessions, etc., the penalty stands... even if it means reduction in heat, food, clothing and necessary medications.
I am looking forward to writing my senator and representative asking for a defense of that Obama compassionate it's-the-right-thing-to-do kindness.
It’s the Whitey Must Pay provision. “You VILL get healthcare!”
More tax dollars flushed down the toilet!
And their transportation of choice is not the basic stuff : used Escalades and crossovers, overpowered pickup trucks and Land Rovers.
Guess they must get fuel subsidies, too.
Congress created a law hamstringing themselves?"
Really?
Brilliant.
Congress has to keep passing laws to try to undo executive branch overreach but it does no good, because extra-legal is extra-legal and will continue to be. The Tea Party was more aptly named than anyone even realized back in 2009.
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