Illegal Aliens Receive $4.2 BILLION in Addidtional Child Tax Credits. So where is the "shared sacrifice?!!!"

Remember my blogs about "anchor babies" and "illegal immigration?" Well, now we find that they cost taxpayers about $4.2 billion, and this idiotic government cannot figure out how to cut the budget. Are they kidding?  How stupid are they?

For those who follow me, this information is subsequent to my blog: "May I see your papers please?"
http://apatriotrant.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-i-see-your-papers-please.html

Amnesty Costs 70 Times More Than Enforcement!
So why is it even on the table?  The cost of amnesty: $999 billion.
The cost of attrition by enforcement: as little as $14 billion.
Amnesty would cost up to 70 times as much as enforcing existing law.

Illegal Aliens Receive $4.2 Billion in Additional Child Tax Credits
Posted by Daniel Horowitz
Friday, September 2nd at 1:49PM EDT


Throughout the entire debt ceiling imbroglio, Democrats incessantly regurgitated the talking point about the need for “a balanced approach.” They were so uniform and synchronized that they sounded like the sheep in Animal Farm. Ironically, their idea of a balanced approach was singularly focused upon Oil Company and corporate tax deductions, which are negligible compared to the crushing debt. The targeted oil tax deductions would have brought in $2 billion in annual revenue, while the cancellation of the corporate jet depreciation deduction would have saved only $3 billion over 10 years!
Well, it turns out that illegal aliens, most of which pay zero in net taxes, enjoyed $4.2 billion from the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) last year. That’s more than the annual revenue from the selected oil tax deductions and corporate jet deductions combined!

Yesterday, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Collection released a shocking report detailing how illegal aliens are able to utilize a filing loophole to obtain billions in ACTC funds. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and ACTC (unlike the base child tax credit) are totally refundable and can award the recipient with a negative tax balance. Appropriations for the EITC in FY 2010 were $54.7 billion and $28.3 billion for the ACTC. While EITC appropriations are protected from illegals (those who don’t engage in identity theft) because they are only awarded to those who provide a valid Social Security number, the same cannot be said for the ACTC.

Here is the punchline of the Inspector’s report:

"Many individuals who are not authorized to work in the United States, and thus not eligible to obtain a Social Security Number (SSN) for employment, earn income in the United States. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides such individuals with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to facilitate their filing of tax returns. Although the law prohibits aliens residing without authorization in the United States from receiving most Federal public benefits, an increasing number of these individuals are filing tax returns claiming the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC), a refundable tax credit intended for working families. The payment of Federal funds through this tax benefit appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the United States without authorization, which contradicts Federal law and policy to remove such incentives. […]"

Because concerns were raised by Congress, the Government Accountability Office, and the IRS regarding noncompliance with EITC requirements, a law was passed in Calendar Year 1996 to deny the EITC to individuals who file a tax return without an SSN that is valid for employment. As such, filers using an ITIN are not eligible for the EITC. The change in the law was made prior to the establishment of the ACTC. However, the same law prohibits aliens residing without authorization in the United States from receiving most Federal public benefits, with the exception of certain emergency services and programs.

Nonetheless, IRS management’s view is that the law does not provide sufficient legal authority for the IRS to disallow the ACTC to ITIN filers. In addition, the Internal Revenue Code does not require an SSN to claim the ACTC and does not provide the IRS math error authority to deny the credit without an examination. As such, the IRS continues to pay the ACTC to ITIN filers.

According to the latest employment data, we’ve lost 2.57 million jobs since Obama took office, even though there are 5.1 million additional people of working age in the country. Illegals are not only competing for scarce jobs; they are enjoying billions in handouts ensconced in the tax system, due to willful negligence on the part of the IRS. For most Americans, they are the most belligerent agency in the government, yet they are suddenly indolent in going after illegals. Obama wants them to clamp down on tax deductions for corporations that pay billions in taxes, while blithely allowing them to ignore billions in refundable handouts to those who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

Talk about a balanced approach.
Source: http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/09/02/illegal-aliens-receive-4-2-billion-in-additional-child-tax-credits/


My other blogs on the subject: http://apatriotrant.blogspot.com/2010/09/birthright-citizenship-in-united-states.html and
http://apatriotrant.blogspot.com/2010/06/anchor-baby-packages-open-gates-for.html
And now you ask, "Why do we have a problem?"

The Story of the Scorpion and the Frog.... The New U.S. Foreign Policy!

The Scorpion and the Frog

One day, a scorpion arrived at a river and wanted to cross it.  He new he couldn't swim across, but he saw a frog sitting on a rock on the other side. 

The scorpion called to the frog across the river.  "Hello, Mr. Frog.  Since I cannot swim and you can, will you please come here and give me a ride across the river to the other side?" asked the scorpion.

The frog looked startled, but quickly responded, "Oh, no!  You are a scorpion.  If you sting me, I will die."

"But if you give me a ride, I promise, I will not sting you.  I give you my word," responded the scorpion.

"Well now, how do I know that if I try to help you, you won't try to sting me?" asked the frog hesitantly.

"Because," continued the scorpion, "if I sting you, then I will die also because I cannot swim!  If you will kindly give me a ride, I give you my word that I will not sting you."

The frog thought about it, but the scorpion's reasoning made sense, but still questioning it, the frog asked, "What happens if you really don't want a ride, and I get close to the bank? You could sting me and go back to the shore!"

"That's true," agreed the scorpion, "but then how would I get to the other side?"

"Okay, so if I take you to the other side, how do I know that you won't wait until we get to the other side before you sting me?" asked the still uncertain frog.

"Ohhh, do you doubt my word?  I cannot cross the river on my own.  If you give me a ride across the river," said the scorpion in his friendliest voice, "I will be forever grateful to you, so grateful in fact, that I could never sting you.  That wouldn't be very nice of me now, would it?  And we can be good friends!"

After thinking a little bit longer, the frog thought it might be nice to have a scorpion as a friend, so the frog told the scorpion to wait for him ... that he'd be right over to give him a ride.  The frog swam across the river to the bank and told the scorpion to hop on his back.  The scorpion crawled on the frog's back and they started back across the river.  The frog was very careful to stay close to the surface so the scorpion wouldn't drown.

Halfway across the river, the frog felt a sharp, painful sting, and a throbbing numbness coursed through his body.  Realizing that the scorpion had stung him and that death was inevitable, he looked back at the scorpion shocked and bewildered, and asked, "Why did you do that?  You gave my your word!  Now we are both going to die."

"It's my nature!"

So why am I telling you this story?

Russian spies were caught in the United States.  Hurriedly, a deal was struck with Russia to release the spies in a prisoner exchange.  For reasons or strategies that are not obvious to us, this may have been  a gesture of goodwill by the frog, but let's call him a toad instead, with a hope of increased cooperation in the future between the two countries.  Were any promises made or were this administration's expectations unreasonable or inflated?

So who is the toad and who is the scorpion in the story? Actually, barf is the incompetent, inexperienced naive toad, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are the scorpions.  Barf just didn't have the good sense to realize he could not make friends with Russia. Russia will always be Russia, and Russia "[S]ometimes ... [got] the impression that America does not need friends" but only "auxiliary subjects to command."[1]  "... Putin and his administration dramatically curtailed freedoms. His government has shut down TV stations and newspapers, jailed businessmen whose wealth and influence challenged the Kremlin's hold on power, defanged opposition political parties and arrested those who confront his rule."[2]  As a child, one learns that tigers do not change their stripes. Putin is former KGB. Once KGB, always KGB ... It's his nature.

Add Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, into the scorpion nest and it's not looking good for the toad. We have a scorpion able to cajole and appear to entertain the seemingly reasonable requests made by the USA and by the United Nations for inspections.  Instead, the naive, incompetent toad found a disingenuous scorpion that actually takes great pleasure in stinging an unsuspecting victim despite ensuring its own death ... It's his nature!

What is the toad doing?  Barf has neither the competence, nor the experience to deal with such an opportunistic and deadly predator.  The scorpions are working together to ensure the destruction of the toad.  I don't think the toad realizes that he's in over his head.  You can't be nice to scorpions.  The relationship in the real world, as is portrayed in the story, is one of "mutually assured destruction."  There are no winners when a toad tries to be friends with scorpions!

The End

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[1] Ignatius, Adi. "Person of the Year 2007: A Tsar is Born." Time Magazine, http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690757_1690766-1,00.htm

[2] Id.