Re: Fuck the immigrants!

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:03:55 GMT, mrtravel wrote:
>Citizen Outkast wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:49:02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did say unto me:
>>>
>>>It certainly surprises me to hear that there's any sort of income tax
>>>break received simply because one is a legal alien.
>> 
>>      I can ask my sister's boyfriend, who still works with these
>> people. From what I was told, they get the break because they are from
>> a "poor" nation or something like that. Some kind of entitlement or
>> break from being from a certain area/nation. They liked to parade
>> around the fact that they got to keep much more of their money than
>> the natural citizens, though. One guy who was legal (and a good
>> person, at that) was deported for accidently not renewing some
>> document, but he did have to pay tax since he wasn't from the same
>> nation as the others. And no, it wasn't tax evasion, it was legal.
>> Like I said, I'll see if I can get more information.
>> 
>
>I am wondering if they are actually referring to the EIC (earned income 
>credit) which allows some low income people to not only not pay income 
>tax, but also get money back. This is not restricted to immigrants.

But this is only for relatively low incomes.

In any case, I'd like to know about this. It sounds too odd.