I sent the below letter to the editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution yesterday when I saw their news on the report linked below.<\/p>\n
This is not the kind of information they are looking for. Chances of publication? Slim and none.<\/p>\n
Report: Deportation deferral programs could boost Georgia tax revenues<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Dear editor,<\/p>\n The AJC report on the tax-day release of a report making the worn-out claim that amnesty for illegal aliens somehow would result in higher tax revenues left out a few notable details.<\/p>\n Most illegals are here because they work for lower wages than Americans need to live that vanishing American Dream. Low-wage workers qualify for income tax credits, not payments. Even without legalization, illegal aliens are already able to pay income taxes by using the Individual Tax Identification Number<\/a> \u2013 but most of the ITINs issued do not result in tax payments, and many result in claims for Child Tax Credits to the IRS. From illegal aliens.<\/p>\n Example? A 2011 U.S. IG report <\/a>stated that \u201cmore than 2.3 million persons who did not have Social Security numbers valid for working in the U.S. got an average of roughly $1,800 each in 2010 in child tax credit refunds. That included 9,000 illegal immigrants who each got a total of $10,000 or more by retroactively claiming credits for tax years prior to 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n We look forward to the AJC coverage of this insanity.<\/p>\n If we are to ignore all of this, let\u2019s all just skip to the end of the agenda<\/a> manual and gush that officially open borders<\/a> and the free flow of people<\/a> would result in more people paying taxes. Presto, problem solved! Right?<\/p>\n D.A. King<\/p>\n Marietta, Ga.<\/p>\n President, the Dustin Inman Society<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Filed under MOMONEY \u00a0 TOO MUCH INFORMATION<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I sent the below letter to the editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution yesterday when I saw their news on the report linked below. This is not the kind of information they are looking for. Chances of publication? Slim and none. Report: Deportation deferral programs could boost Georgia tax revenues Dear editor, The AJC report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}