#!: The story calls them "taxpayers." Most haven't paid one cent in income tax in years, if ever.
#2: Most work off the books for cash, so they are cheating other citizens to begin with, and because they are working off the books, they are getting another $6000 in cash.
#3: It's because they are working off the books that they have such a low supposed income so they get the $6000.
#4: On top of this, they are getting free Section 8 housing, free food stamps, free Medicaid, free transportation, free breakfast, lunch and dinner at schools, etc.
Of course, they need that $6000 so they can buy their meth, heroin, speed and crack.
Forget about giving one cent to United Way!
Why? When you give a a buck directly to a charity< United Way doesn't eat 17 cents in fundraising costs off the top. source
When they die and meet their Maker, they can try to explain away their guilt. :o)
All true, TAKASO (Sounds Japanese.:o))
You have to have ‘on the books income’ to qualify for EIC, and the benefit increases with income to a point. There is a maximum income level, beyond which the benefit declines, eventually phasing out entirely.
About ten years ago a guy here won a big cash prize from a local TV station’s sweeps week contest.
A few months later he turned up on the newscast of a competing station complaining about the “ripoff” being run
by the first station.
The “ripoff” was that due to his $20,000 prize he no longer qualified for his EITC!
The Earned Income Tax Credit (E.I.T.C.) Proposed by Nixon, signed into law by Ford and increased under every administration since, without exceptions.
Why don’t a just write a check to these lazy bastards directly?
EITC should be ended. It’s an insult to normal working Americans that on the same day we have to pay FedZilla tens of thousands of dollars some people are getting free money.