The Obama administrations breathtaking profligacy with taxpayer dollars, contempt and subversion of US statutes regarding immigration matters is highlighted in this post at Powerline.com. The article, available in its entirety here, makes extensive reference to data in a report of The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
A key revelation as contained in the Powerline article:
The Inspector General recommended that, “Legislation should be considered to require a Social Security Number in order to be eligible for the ACTC, consistent with the requirements for the Earned Income Tax Credit… As it now stands, the payment of Federal funds through this tax benefit appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the U.S. without authorization, which contradicts Federal law and policy to remove such incentives.”
Republican Senators proposed such legislation, but Harry Reid refused to allow it to come to the Senate floor for a vote. So at the same time that the United States is going broke, with $16 trillion in debt, we are bribing people from all over the world, illegally as well as legally, to enjoy federal benefits at taxpayer expense. And Barack Obama and Harry Reid refuse to permit anything to be done, even to the extent of limiting blatant fraud. DLH
