Old And Busted: It’s Not Amnesty Because illegals Will Have To Pay Back Taxes. New Hotness: Shut Up.

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DrewM @ Ace of Spades HQ:

The dishonesty of the amnesty crowd is breathtaking even by the usual low standards of politics. Of course, since they won’t even admit it’s amnesty (and it is amnesty), this isn’t anything remotely surprising.

“I think no one can go back and guess or surmise how much the unpaid taxes would be for the entire group,” said David Marzahl, the president and CEO of the Center for Economic Progress, a group that works on tax issues with low-income and immigrant groups.
Negotiators had to choose between a hard-line approach favored by Republicans, like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), that would have required immigrants and employers to painstakingly piece together a tax history so the government could collect what is owed and a less burdensome option of focusing on people who already have a past-due bill with the Internal Revenue Service.

They chose the milder approach and punted the details to the Treasury Department and IRS to hash out down the road.

The legislation now simply requires any currently undocumented immigrant to pay “any applicable federal tax liability.” That most likely means that only those people who filed tax paperwork like a W-2 or I-9 form with their employer could potentially be hit by a tax bill, and only if they missed a tax payment in the past.

Negotiators continued using the term “back taxes” when selling the plan and trying to allay concerns among conservatives that the proposal would not be tough enough on immigrants who entered the country illegally.

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Pat back taxes my As7. They all qualify for Earned Income Credit (EIC). Low wage earners do not pay income taxes. They will pay FICA taxes but the thousands they will receive in EIC credits will far outweigh anything they will have to pay. What a scam the gang of 8 is pulling.

But, but, but, but…….
All these years it has been touted that they were all paying their taxes!
So, I ask…….what back taxes?