President Trump has been willing to accept almost anything to close the deal on his giant tax cut bill before Christmas, including staying mum about a measure that would allow illegal immigrants to pocket the more generous child tax credit included in the package.
Illegal immigrants have been collecting the payoff from the “refundable” tax credit for years because of an IRS interpretation of how the rule was drafted. The Republican-controlled Congress this fall had a chance to correct that in the tax code overhaul that in the Senate version doubled the child tax credit to $2,000 and expanded eligibility.
The House bill increased the child tax credit to $1,600 and upped the income cutoff to receive it.
Both bills neglect to require that the worker have a Social Security number to claim the credit but require only that the qualifying child have a Social Security number.
Under those conditions, illegal immigrant workers with children who benefit from birthright citizenship — a relatively common phenomenon among America’s estimated 12.5 million illegal immigrants — could cash in.
HT/ Mighty Mojo
November 2018 BITCHES!!!!!
Well then the Democrats should be dancing in the streets and tripping over themselves to get behind it.
Read about this the other day. We will finally know if PDJT really wants to MAGA, or surrender to a bunch of third world mud people.
Choose wisely Mr. President.
I haven’t followed this much, but I *have* heard concerns expressed about gun confiscation being enabled through “fix NICS” in the Bill.
Presented FYI…I hope those more knowledgeable will chime in
(Bad Brad, tsunami)
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelhammond/2017/12/03/will-the-gop-leadership-be-the-ones-to-delivergun-control-n2417303
@J B Books December 11, 2017 at 3:09 pm
> Choose wisely Mr. President.
Because, you know your supporters are willing to line right up behind Mad Maxine, if it’s for the “Good of the Country™”.
are the tax credits in both bills or not?
JTucker- Yes, ones just more generous than the other.