[valkyrieanne]

The cost of living forces families to work multiple jobs to handle all the bills.

It's the taxes. Meanwhile, we *pay* an Earned Income Tax credit to families with less income.

[Calpernia]

>>>It's the taxes. Meanwhile, we *pay* an Earned Income Tax credit to families with less income.

Yup. We got money reallocated to others in our state that weren't earning enough this year too :(

[supercat]

It's the taxes. Meanwhile, we *pay* an Earned Income Tax credit to families with less income.

I'd rather pay $100/month or so to someone who's earning $12,000/year than pay many times that to someone who's earning $0. Actually, I'd rather pay $100/month to someone earning $12,000/year than pay $1 to someone who has no good reason to be earning $0.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Meanwhile, we *pay* an Earned Income Tax credit to families with less income.

The EITC "costs" about $100 per person per year, so it is hardly impoverishing any family in its tax "cost". However, it isn't even really a cost except in liberalthink tax theory. It represents a refund of social security taxes to low income persons. If you earn nothing, you get no EITC. And since it is a refund of other taxes, it is not a real cost, but a removal of part of the tax burden on the US population.