Policy Chairman s Child Support Enforcement Act to be Introduced

Policy.house.gov ^ | 7/15/2002 | Paul Wilkinson

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For Immediate Release Monday, July 15, 2002		Contact: Paul Wilkinson 202-225-6168
Policy Chairman’s Child Support Enforcement Act to be Introduced News Conference: 11:45 a.m., Tuesday, July 16, Cannon Terrace, with Rep. Cox, Sen. Boxer Helps Families Owed Child Support WASHINGTON--House Policy Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will join a group of parents and children owed child support Tuesday to introduce legislation that gives immediate relief to over two million families owed child support, and encourages delinquent parents to pay child support on time. “I’m pleased that the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support will be joining me at the Capitol to unveil the ‘Child Support Enforcement Act.’ This is a major step Congress can take now to encourage parents to pay what they owe and to help custodial parents under financial pressure because of delinquent child support. Working together, I’m confident this bill can soon become law,” Cox said. Under the Child Support Enforcement Act: · Parents owed child support would be able to deduct the unpaid portion, providing immediate tax relief to millions of struggling parents. · The delinquent parent would be required to take the amount of unpaid child support into income. The resultant tax penalty (which would be zero for parents with no taxable income) would increase according to income and ability to pay, creating an effective incentive to pay child support on time. This would make the tax treatment of unpaid child support consistent with the treatment of other bad debts in the tax code. Delinquent parents would remain liable for all past due child support. The United States faces a child support crisis: there are currently 10 million cases of unpaid child support in the United States. Each year, nearly 60% of parents owed support receive less than the full amount due. More than 30% receive no payment at all. Once the payment due date passes, child support in arrears is rarely paid. In fact, $78 billion of child support remains outstanding. “In 2000, more than $10 billion in child support went uncollected, forcing many single-parent families onto public assistance—and forcing American taxpayers, already working hard to support their own families, to carry the added burden. But the hardest hit are the children,” Cox said. The Child Support Enforcement Act would provide immediate relief to custodial parents struggling to support their children. The Child Support Enforcement Act has bipartisan and bicameral support, including 40 cosponsors in the House. Rep. Cox and Sen. Boxer will formally introduce the bill Tuesday. # # #

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I just stumbled across this little gem. Please note that if a father is layed-off, injured, sick, or anything else that takes him out of the workforce, the amount of "child support" (hidden alimony and all) that he falls behind on WILL BE ADDED TO HIS TAXABLE INCOME, over and above what he already earns.

It's common practice for the "family court" judges to "impute" income to a father that he has not earned for the purpose of inflating support awards, but now if these people have their way (and they likely will), the IRS can impute income to fathers and raise his tax bill, while cutting his ex-wife's taxes by the same amount!

How did the old song go??? "Bend over, Johnny. This is your day in court. She gets the kids, the house, the car...you get to pay child support." Now you're going to have income imputed to you by the IRS as well as the judge.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

This will cause an immediate fan club of the IRS. I can't believe Chris Cox. He will have done more to make the IRS popular than any demon-rat ever had.

All those mothers, 2/3rds of whom had been the initiatators of the divorce in the first place, mostly over money. These so-called 'wives' who vowed for richer or poorer with their fingers crossed, will love and adore their knight in shining armor, the IRS. Sweet dreams.

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PING

Saw Roger's post just after I put this one up, but word about this one needs to get out. Looks like Dads are about to have stuck to them again, all in the name of 'fairness'.

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This will go a long way to making the IRS (and with it, the tax code) politically untouchable, moreso than it already is. We saw the begining of that when there was what looked like serious talk a few years ago about putting the IRS on a tight leash, or even abolishing it. The dems were quick to put a big smiley face on the agency because they hand out the "earned" income tax credit, which is really just welfare for the lower-middle class. Now we have the RINO's signing onto this one.

If you have sons, the day is coming when you may want to strongly advise them to get a vasectomy for their 18th birthday, rather than risk becoming a slave to the state. Sad, but that day is coming.

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The question:"Why get married?" comes to mind.

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