If this isn't the last straw in the funding debate over
President Obama's unlawful executive amnesty decree, then there is no outrage
that will move Senate Democrats to some form of sanity.
Internal Revenue Service
Commissioner John Koskinen told the Senate Finance Committee that the IRS is going to give illegals who benefit from
Obama's executive amnesty billions of dollars of tax credits for the years they
worked here illegally. That's right, illegal workers will be able to claim back
tax credits for up to three years in a move that could total tens of thousands
of dollars into their pockets.
I am personally sympathetic to those who come to America for
a better way of life. That is the way it should be: Our nation is a beacon of
freedom and opportunity that attracts people of ambition, strength and
character.
However, our federal government's public assistance policy
turns this ethos on its head, instead encouraging people to come to our nation
illegally under the guise of getting something for nothing. Hardly the values
that our nation should seek to foster.
Please recognize that this is not the fault of those who
have come here illegally. It is the fault of government policy that seeks to
create a generational dependency cycle for cynical political advantage.
How else can one explain the eagerness with which the IRS is
accommodating illegals in seeking a retroactive tax jackpot?
What is particularly galling is that the Earned Income Tax
Credit (EITC) is a tax policy that allows lower-income workers to get a refund
that far exceeds the amount of money withheld from their paychecks. So,
amnestied illegals will not only be getting money they paid into the system
back, but also a very fat bonus payment on top of it.
Remember that this is the same "benevolent" IRS
that has made a practice of targeting conservative groups and donors by
delaying applications and putting their tax returns under extra scrutiny. Yet
somehow, Koskinen says that they want to err on the side of giving illegals the
benefit of the doubt since the law is purportedly vague.
Not surprisingly, it likely never occurred to anyone that
you had to spell out that someone working in the country illegally, whom the
president waved a magic wand and suddenly made legal, would be ineligible for
benefits retroactively. But the new, nice IRS apparently wants to make certain
that they didn't offend these new entrants into the entitlement class — at
least not until they register to vote.
If this IRS action does not steel the resolve of the
Republican majority in the House and Senate to take every step, including
allowing Obama to shut down the nonessential portions of the Department of
Homeland Security (about 15 percent of the department and no law enforcement
functions would be affected), then I don't know what will.
Rather than submit any new funding bill to the Senate,
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) needs to tell Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) that the House has done its work, and let the Democrats stew
over the next couple of weeks in the public disapprobation that is guaranteed
to follow this latest benefit scam.
If Republicans play hardball, Senate Democrats who claim to
be centrists will stew in the public's outrage and will pay the political price
for toeing Obama's amnesty line — but that's a big "if."
Manning is president of Americans for Limited Government.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/232148-irss-illegal-alien-tax-credit-plan
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