I totally agree with the author. The Earned Income Tax Credit is already complicated and claiming it increases the taxpayer's chances of a tax audit. For some reason, Republicans are convinced that low-income people are all cheats (you can thank Reagan and his "welfare queen comment) while all evidence clearly shows that it's the wealthy and corporations that cheat on their taxes. This is also why Republicans want to reduce funding of the IRS because it's been auditing and catching these tax cheats. They want to kill the free, easy to use Direct File software program developed by the IRS. Republicans have learned to cheat by not directly repealing things that benefit low-income people and instead make claiming these benefits so difficult that people simply stop trying. We need to always call out Republican lies.
I totally agree with the author. The Earned Income Tax Credit is already complicated and claiming it increases the taxpayer's chances of a tax audit. For some reason, Republicans are convinced that low-income people are all cheats (you can thank Reagan and his "welfare queen comment) while all evidence clearly shows that it's the wealthy and corporations that cheat on their taxes. This is also why Republicans want to reduce funding of the IRS because it's been auditing and catching these tax cheats. They want to kill the free, easy to use Direct File software program developed by the IRS. Republicans have learned to cheat by not directly repealing things that benefit low-income people and instead make claiming these benefits so difficult that people simply stop trying. We need to always call out Republican lies.
Brava, Anna. Thank you for your tireless efforts on behalf of families and kids.
I completely agree. Unfortunately, thanks to decades of education cuts, half of Americans cannot read this article and understand it.