{"id":25249,"date":"2015-03-23T18:52:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T22:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25249"},"modified":"2015-03-23T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T22:52:57","slug":"lets-give-away-more-of-taxpayers-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25249","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Give Away More Of Taxpayers&#8217; Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you wonder if <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Congress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Congress<\/a> were spending their own money, would they be a little more careful with it?<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2015\/03\/21\/democrats-on-budget-committee-vote-unanimously-to-give-tax-credits-to-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\">The DC Clothesline<\/a> reported that the Democrats on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Senate Committee on the Budget\" href=\"http:\/\/budget.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Senate Budget Committee<\/a> voted unanimously to allow illegal immigrants to receive <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Earned income tax credit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earned_income_tax_credit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Earned Income Tax Credit<\/a> (EITC) and child credit. Note the words &#8220;illegal immigrants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jeff Sessions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sessions.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Sen. Jeff Sessions<\/a> proposed an amendment, which would prevent <a title=\"IRS is Giving Tax Refunds to Illegals Who Have Never Paid Taxes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2015\/03\/04\/irs-is-giving-tax-refunds-to-illegals-who-have-never-paid-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">illegal aliens<\/a> from receiving the <a title=\"Crime Does Pay\u2026Illegals With Three Kids Will Collect $35,000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2015\/02\/27\/crime-does-payillegals-with-three-kids-will-collect-35000\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) \u00a0and child credit<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;In the last year with complete records, 2010, <span id=\"IL_AD11\" class=\"IL_AD\">the amount<\/span> of fraudulent payments hit 4.2 billion dollars and all tax credits combined cost about 7.6 billion last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Democrats who voted against the amendment were: \u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bernie Sanders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Bernie Sanders<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Debbie Stabenow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stabenow.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Debbie Stabenow<\/a>,\u00a0 Sens. Patty Murray, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ron Wyden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Ron Wyden<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sheldon Whitehouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jeff Merkley\" href=\"http:\/\/merkley.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Jeff Merkley<\/a>, Mark Warner, Tammy Baldwin, Tim Kaine and Angus King.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;Debbie Stabenow, who is one of many democratic women with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Intelligence quotient\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligence_quotient\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">IQs<\/a> in <span id=\"IL_AD3\" class=\"IL_AD\">single<\/span> <span id=\"IL_AD7\" class=\"IL_AD\">digits<\/span> said she doesn\u2019t believe illegal aliens are collecting federal benefits even though the idea came from the Treasury Inspector General who stated unequivocally that <a title=\"IRS Announces New Illegal Initiative\u2026Now Illegals Will Get Refunds (And Votes) Even Americans Are Not Eligible For\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2015\/02\/13\/irs-announces-new-illegal-initiativenow-illegals-will-get-refunds-votes-even-americans-not-eligible\/\" target=\"_blank\">illegals are collecting benefits<\/a> was right in front of her.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The amendment failed with unanimous support of the republicans on the committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t we either return illegal aliens to their home countries or take steps to prevent them from taking money out of the pockets of Americans. I don&#8217;t mind giving someone a hand-up when needed, but we have reached the point where illegal aliens are committing fraud to take money from Americans. That has got to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you wonder if Congress were spending their own money, would they be a little more careful with it? 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