A poor mother: My child's worth tax credit, too

Houston Chronicle ^ | July 8, 2003 | Margaret Gaffin

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, not that's not her.

[DoughtyOne]

Ahh the party faithful. CPoA.

[wazoo1031]

Bump!

[DMZFrank]

"I'd like to believe that another world is possible, a world where we have equal opportunity, and one child is not favored over another because of skin color or wealth".

Such a world already exists. Just look for any Marxist-Leninist socialist worker's paradise where you have to wait in a 4 block line for toilet paper or ground beef. Replete with an all expense paid gulag if you complain about it.

[DMZFrank]

This requires the ability to employ linear thinking with the left side of your brain. To much to ask for in this age of Oprah and thereputic politics.

[DMZFrank]

WOW! Just consider the subtle evil Machiavellan brilliance of all this, they have managed to finagle the concept of paying taxes into a freaking WELFARE PROGRAM!!!

[ApesForEvolution]

For the most part, a CPofA member is nothing more than an unabashed contemporary Democrat.

We live in a day when the Democrats have adopted the communist ideal and the Republicans have adopted Democrat ideals.

Which truly leaves only conservatives as the torch bearers of restoring America to a Constitutional government.

Which is why most of the GOP despises conservatives (but can't win anything without them).

[A. Pole]

Does she even pay taxes? In a word? NO

Very likely she does. And possibly a higher percentage than a person making a million.

It is so funny to see when clueless people compare the FEDERAL income tax with the TOTAL tax in Sweden.

[JesseHousman]

It hurts when my 8-year-old daughter wants to go to the movies or even have a meal at McDonald's and I have to say, "No, Mommy can't afford it."

Most Americans can't afford to take their children for a "meal" at McDonald's.

They boil the potatoes, mash them, bake a meatloaf, open a can of peas and say, "Dinner is served."

Where's the 8-year-old's daddy or does Gaffin bother to get his name?

She strives for a government job, which is typical of the welfare class and mentality.

[JesseHousman]

You only get a 'credit' when you have made a 'debit'...

Au contraire mon Abynormal.

In the United States the weasely congressrats will make certain that a cash grant will be given to those who pay no taxes (so they can continue sucking the federal tit) whilst those wage and tax slaves get nothing.

The perpetuation of Lyndon's Great Society must go on and on and on and on and on. That is, until the electorate gets busy and limits the time our poltical elite can spend in Washington "fighting for families."

I think the best way to get lazy welfare state plantation members off their duffs is to reverse the rate of taxes: the less you make the greater the percentage of tax paid.

[demkicker]

BWAHAHAHAHA I thought this was a Onion piece at first! This gal NEEDS to go back to school!

Believe me, the Houston Comical is more of a joke than The Onion.

[reg45]

Don't forget, you are still paying off the Spanish-American War with your telephone excise tax.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree.

[DoughtyOne]

Why don't you share with us why you're not getting a refund. That might be a good place to start.

[hayfried]

Very likely she does. And possibly a higher percentage than a person making a million.

If you've got her 1040, or an affadavit signed by Ms. Gaffin detailing her income tax, post it. I'll be waiting.

Otherwise, this is merely tendentious speculation on your part.

[cajun-jack]

this woman will never get out of the tax bracket she is in..if she thinks being a probation officer is working in social services she is really stupid. If she thinks p&p officers make a lot of money, she is really stupid to try and get a social services degree with student loans.

And while we can all have sympathy for her plight, it is not my job to give her my money just so she can ride around in the middle of the night and mess with people. Next she will be wanting gov't paid childcare cause p&p folks definitely work late hours.

In the words of that great statesman, Bugs Bunny, sheesh, what a maroon!!