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The media is also gloating over the 5.6% unemployment
rate which the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, Jim Clifton, described in his
article as “The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment.”
“The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the
long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly
underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.” http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/181469/big-lie-unemployment.aspx
While Americans have been told that their refunds may be
delayed due to Obamacare penalties and calculations for those who may owe money
to the IRS for overpaid subsidies, illegal aliens, as usual, are getting the
red carpet treatment with taxpayer dollars. American taxpayers have to file an
additional form, 8962, with 12 rows and 6 columns (72 boxes), to compute
subsidies for each month of 2014.
“Consumers
may be subject to tax penalties for any month in which they had neither
insurance coverage nor an exemption.”
Do not expect speedy service or
prompt answers from the IRS as they are busy with other issues. Thirty types of
exemptions from penalty have been set up by the federal government, including
for those in states that did not expand Medicaid, religious beliefs, or
premiums higher than 8% of household income. Documentation must be provided to
the IRS for such hardships.
Illegal aliens, who were working under the radar of the
IRS were encouraged to pay taxes via the Individual Taxpayer Identification
Number (ITIN). Many illegals took advantage of this loophole and claimed
numerous children in the country and outside of the country under the Earned
Income Tax Credit (EITC) to the tune of $4.2 billion in 2010.
According to Washington Times, “IRS Commissioner John
Koskinen confirmed Tuesday that illegal immigrants granted amnesty from
deportation under President Obama’s new policies would be able to get extra
funds from the IRS for money they earned while working illegally, as long as
they filed returns during those years.“ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/3/irs-offers-extra-tax-refunds-to-illegal-immigrants/#ixzz3QnJt4B1q
The new amnestied illegals, will receive official Social Security numbers, enabling them to file retroactively three years for Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), “potentially claiming billions of dollars in additional payments they were ineligible for before the amnesty.” The Earned Income Tax Credit was established in 1975 for American citizens whose income fell below the federal poverty line.
Likely 4 million illegal immigrants
are going to receive this administration’s “deferred action” or “deportation
stay,” and thus work permits. Supporters of ITINs and EITCs say that it would
be “unfair” to withhold billions from children who are likely U.S. citizens
anyway because they became “anchor babies” when their illegal moms gave birth
in this country.
In the meantime, while you lost
your doctor, your premiums skyrocketed, the deductibles went through the roof, co-pays
were larger than ever, your medical care took a dive, had to see a nurse
practitioner, and you had to drop your good health insurance and accept
substandard insurance on the Obamacare exchanges, the illegal aliens are
receiving income tax refunds and free medical care, while you are trying to
find three jobs to replace the one full-time job you lost because of the
Affordable Care Act mandates. But, on the bright side, if you are a man, you now
have free contraceptives.
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