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On the recordJuly 16, 2013
I thank the gentleman from Texas. I wanted to add on to the child care tax credits that you were speaking of. There's also another redistribution of wealth item in the Tax Code. It's called the earned income tax credit. It's one of the largest redistribution of wealth programs that we have in the United States. We give away to people who are virtually paying no taxes under the Income Tax Code, income taxes, $70 billion a year. So people who aren't paying into the system now for income tax, they're receiving $70 billion a year. The estimate is that, after amnesty, once we grant amnesty to illegal aliens, we'll raise that to $80 billion a year. So we're going to increase the cost. So what we're seeing happening, by granting amnesty to illegal aliens, we're importing a group of individuals who are tax consumers, revenue consumers out of the Treasury. And one thing that we need in this country are more people who are paying into the system, not people who are taking out of the system. But bottom line, we need to have a country where America comes first, where the American people know that our borders are secured, that our laws will be upheld, and that the American people will come first.
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Michele Bachmann
Minnesota

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