December 09, 2018
Cut Welfare for Aliens to build the Wall
Timothy Birdnow
Sen. James Inhofe has a great idea for funding a border wall; stop paying illegal aliens in this country and use the savings to build the wall.
From the Center for Immigration Studies:
"What the senators have figured out, something that too many decision-makers and voters do not know, is that all SSNs are not equal, and only some of them should be used when someone wants something from Uncle Sam. Here's the situation: 1. Most SSNs are issued to those who may work legally; others are issued for non-work purposes; some of the work-related ones issued to aliens are time-limited.
2. SSN's are issued to a given individual, and are not to be transferred to others.
3. Some potential SSNs are, to use the insider's term, "impossible numbers" in that they have the xxx - xx - xxxx sequence, but they have never been issued. Their use is relatively rare.
4. There are also Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs), which are issued to those not entitled to work legally, but may be used by aliens to report stock dividends, for example.
5. Government benefits should be issued only to possible SSNs that were issued for work purposes and can still be used for work, and that were issued to the individuals claiming the benefits. No income tax-related benefits should go to people with ITINs, which are routinely issued to those who cannot work legally.
6. Many illegal aliens lie to the government, in that they are offering someone else's SSN, sometimes a relative's, when seeking tax benefits.
What is shown above is how SSNs should be used, but often are not. Sometimes current law or its interpretations allow other uses of the SSNs and the ITINs. Often, though not always admitted, income tax agencies will look at the number on the employer's W-2 form, and if that matches the 1040 or the state income tax form, they accept the SSN as legitimate, look no further, and issue the refund.
Inhofe's bill, broadly speaking, demands that benefits be handled as in bullet No. 5 above. It deals with a variety of tax programs, such as Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC), Child Tax Credits and Additional Child Tax Credits (ACTC), and welfare programs such as food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing. Also, to quote its summary, it "requires IRS to verify SSNs with the Social Security System to ensure filer's SSNs are valid and match the identity of the filer."
End excerpt.
Inhofe, along with Ted Cruz, John Kennedy, and Mike Rounds, have introduced s3713 the Wall Act. They figure they can pay for a wall just by ending welfare abuse by aliens. In other words, we stop subsidizing invaders and use the savings to build the wall.
The Democrats will never, ever allow that. It not only promotes border enforcement but takes away a powerful magnet that draws future Democrat voters.
Jason Richwine goes into further detail on the abuses of government assistance and how reform is necessary. He states:
"The federal government does not keep administrative data on welfare consumption by immigration status. However, we can generate estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), which is designed to capture welfare use and has the least undercount of all the major Census surveys. I commend DHS for using the SIPP in its own analyses rather than using a less comprehensive dataset such as the Current Population Survey.
In the most recent SIPP data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies, 55 percent of immigrant-headed households received welfare in the form of cash, food, medical care, or housing assistance, compared to 35 percent of native households. Welfare use rises to 63 percent for households headed by noncitizen immigrants, and to a remarkable 80 percent for noncitizen households with children.2 Clearly, immigrants not only consume welfare, but do so at high rates."
End excerpt.
And he points out that, despite laws on the books making it illegal to "adjust the status" of an alien so as to allow them on the dole.
The Left is infuriating because they ram something down our throats and then demand we pay for it. This alien invasion of America is being perpetrated in direct opposition to America's interests or desires, and at the same time the liberals are forcing us to pay to support these people who are not supposed to be here, all to create new Democrat voters and eventually breed the old line Americans out of our own country.
That is why Trump was elected. Sadly, the GOP has still largely not gotten the message.
Sen. James Inhofe has a great idea for funding a border wall; stop paying illegal aliens in this country and use the savings to build the wall.
From the Center for Immigration Studies:
"What the senators have figured out, something that too many decision-makers and voters do not know, is that all SSNs are not equal, and only some of them should be used when someone wants something from Uncle Sam. Here's the situation: 1. Most SSNs are issued to those who may work legally; others are issued for non-work purposes; some of the work-related ones issued to aliens are time-limited.
2. SSN's are issued to a given individual, and are not to be transferred to others.
3. Some potential SSNs are, to use the insider's term, "impossible numbers" in that they have the xxx - xx - xxxx sequence, but they have never been issued. Their use is relatively rare.
4. There are also Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs), which are issued to those not entitled to work legally, but may be used by aliens to report stock dividends, for example.
5. Government benefits should be issued only to possible SSNs that were issued for work purposes and can still be used for work, and that were issued to the individuals claiming the benefits. No income tax-related benefits should go to people with ITINs, which are routinely issued to those who cannot work legally.
6. Many illegal aliens lie to the government, in that they are offering someone else's SSN, sometimes a relative's, when seeking tax benefits.
What is shown above is how SSNs should be used, but often are not. Sometimes current law or its interpretations allow other uses of the SSNs and the ITINs. Often, though not always admitted, income tax agencies will look at the number on the employer's W-2 form, and if that matches the 1040 or the state income tax form, they accept the SSN as legitimate, look no further, and issue the refund.
Inhofe's bill, broadly speaking, demands that benefits be handled as in bullet No. 5 above. It deals with a variety of tax programs, such as Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC), Child Tax Credits and Additional Child Tax Credits (ACTC), and welfare programs such as food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing. Also, to quote its summary, it "requires IRS to verify SSNs with the Social Security System to ensure filer's SSNs are valid and match the identity of the filer."
End excerpt.
Inhofe, along with Ted Cruz, John Kennedy, and Mike Rounds, have introduced s3713 the Wall Act. They figure they can pay for a wall just by ending welfare abuse by aliens. In other words, we stop subsidizing invaders and use the savings to build the wall.
The Democrats will never, ever allow that. It not only promotes border enforcement but takes away a powerful magnet that draws future Democrat voters.
Jason Richwine goes into further detail on the abuses of government assistance and how reform is necessary. He states:
"The federal government does not keep administrative data on welfare consumption by immigration status. However, we can generate estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), which is designed to capture welfare use and has the least undercount of all the major Census surveys. I commend DHS for using the SIPP in its own analyses rather than using a less comprehensive dataset such as the Current Population Survey.
In the most recent SIPP data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies, 55 percent of immigrant-headed households received welfare in the form of cash, food, medical care, or housing assistance, compared to 35 percent of native households. Welfare use rises to 63 percent for households headed by noncitizen immigrants, and to a remarkable 80 percent for noncitizen households with children.2 Clearly, immigrants not only consume welfare, but do so at high rates."
End excerpt.
And he points out that, despite laws on the books making it illegal to "adjust the status" of an alien so as to allow them on the dole.
The Left is infuriating because they ram something down our throats and then demand we pay for it. This alien invasion of America is being perpetrated in direct opposition to America's interests or desires, and at the same time the liberals are forcing us to pay to support these people who are not supposed to be here, all to create new Democrat voters and eventually breed the old line Americans out of our own country.
That is why Trump was elected. Sadly, the GOP has still largely not gotten the message.
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It's not just "the Left" that's in favor of this, if you consider the Chamber of Commerce types to be on "the Right", they're in fact almost certainly the greatest driver of this, since welfare for illegal aliens provides them with even cheaper labor. Privatized profits, socialized costs.
Or let me fix one of your sentences, take either as your prefer:
The GOPe will never, ever allow that.
The Uniparty will never, ever allow that.
Related, someone commented that the Caravan's iconic photograph wasn't going to cut it, since way too many of us have seen a fat Latin American woman with children pay for her groceries with Food Stamps, excuse me, SNAP, and then enter an expensive pickup truck her husband has bought with off the table wages.
Or let me fix one of your sentences, take either as your prefer:
The GOPe will never, ever allow that.
The Uniparty will never, ever allow that.
Related, someone commented that the Caravan's iconic photograph wasn't going to cut it, since way too many of us have seen a fat Latin American woman with children pay for her groceries with Food Stamps, excuse me, SNAP, and then enter an expensive pickup truck her husband has bought with off the table wages.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 09, 2018 11:06 AM (FPIRN)
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I stand corrected Anonymous! You're absolutely right; the Establishment Republicans are as much in favor of this invasion as the Democrats. That's why, with both houses of Congress, they didn't even try to build the wall or tighten border security. It's why they lost the House, too, in my humble opinion.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 10, 2018 09:01 AM (9jcVO)
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Not just your opinion, of course. There's clearly reasons the GOP catastrophically lost the Rust Belt Trump won in 2016, aside from that Indiana Senate race he put a lot of effort into, and I can't see how the near total failure on immigration, legal and illegal, isn't a major part of that.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 11, 2018 01:49 PM (FPIRN)
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Yep - the Republicans were elected to do a job and they simply refused to do it. I'd get fired if I did my job that way, too.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 12, 2018 07:21 AM (Xck8P)
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Yep - the Republicans were elected to do a job and they simply refused to do it.
It's a worse and abject betrayal. While the GOPe of course never claimed they would do much about immigration, often quite to the contrary, they did for example promise for most of a decade to repeal Obamacare if we just gave them both houses of the Congress and the White House. And then abjectly failed, with John McCain making a point to rub it in the base's nose, which he's hated with a burning passion since they rejected him in the 2000 nomination campaign.
Lots of other promises were made, but aside from judicial nominations, removing regulations using that law which conveniently requires official notification from the agency before the clock starts, so many old regs as well as the last minute Obama ones were killed dead, and tax cuts, they've done nothing. And only judicial nominations this year, although people have been noticing the tax cuts this year, and often increases for those in high local tax areas where the State And Local Tax (SALT) $10,000 deduction cap hits. Which probably helped the Republicans lose some areas like suburban Pennsylvania, but at least the rest of us aren't subsidizing the Blue Model as much.
It's a worse and abject betrayal. While the GOPe of course never claimed they would do much about immigration, often quite to the contrary, they did for example promise for most of a decade to repeal Obamacare if we just gave them both houses of the Congress and the White House. And then abjectly failed, with John McCain making a point to rub it in the base's nose, which he's hated with a burning passion since they rejected him in the 2000 nomination campaign.
Lots of other promises were made, but aside from judicial nominations, removing regulations using that law which conveniently requires official notification from the agency before the clock starts, so many old regs as well as the last minute Obama ones were killed dead, and tax cuts, they've done nothing. And only judicial nominations this year, although people have been noticing the tax cuts this year, and often increases for those in high local tax areas where the State And Local Tax (SALT) $10,000 deduction cap hits. Which probably helped the Republicans lose some areas like suburban Pennsylvania, but at least the rest of us aren't subsidizing the Blue Model as much.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 12, 2018 08:20 AM (FPIRN)
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Yes sir, Anon! They have been an abject failure - and in many ways on purpose. Even the judicial nominations have been rather slow walked, with a lot of judgeships still vacant. And it should be pointed out that Mitch McConnell has kept the Senate in session thus preventing Trump from making recess appointments to his own administration. It's disgraceful.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 13, 2018 05:19 PM (z2Zyl)
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