$10 an hour with 2 kids? IRS pounces
Filed in Politics on Dec.10, 2009
Strange, strange situation. Don’t make enough money and the IRS audits you.
Rachel Porcaro knows she’s hardly rich. When you’re a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don’t need government experts to tell you how broke you are.
But that’s what happened. The government not only told Porcaro she was poor. They said she was too poor to make it in Seattle.
It all started a year ago, when Porcaro, a 32-year-old mom with two boys, was summoned to the Seattle office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She had been flagged for an audit.
She couldn’t believe it. She made $18,992 the previous year cutting hair at Supercuts. A few hundred of that she spent to have her taxes prepared by H&R Block.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:10 am
this quote from the article:
“Congress has been fighting for years about the earned income tax credit for the working poor.
Republicans have called the credits “backdoor welfare” and tried to cancel them. When they controlled Congress, they ordered the IRS to ramp up audits of people who claim the credit.
In 2006, credit recipients such as Rachel were more than twice as likely to get audited as the rest of the 140 million individual tax filers.”
I say is,
ALL PUKING, MIND BOGGLING, BUSH/REPUBLICAN CRAP.
timesr Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
@skyagunsta, “Republicans have called the credits “backdoor welfare” and tried to cancel them. When they controlled Congress, they ordered the IRS to ramp up audits of people who claim the credit.”
Words fail me.
Why don’t those Republicans just stop pussy-footing around and make being poor a crime?
Sage Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Isn’t that the truth….might as well make it a crime.
I just got in from shopping with my mom…anything exciting going on today?