{"id":1154,"date":"2008-01-31T09:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/way-to-shut-the-door-senate\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T13:09:16","slug":"way-to-shut-the-door-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Way to shut the door, Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the House of Representatives tried to reduce the rebate amount of my taxes so they can pay illegal aliens (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,326928,00.html\">Fox News link<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of the Senate Finance Committee passed a bill Wednesday they say will fix a loophole in the House-passed economic stimulus package that allows some illegal immigrants to qualify for tax rebate checks.<\/p>\n<p>The fix requires that anyone eligible for a rebate envisioned in a House-passed $161 billion stimulus package must have to have a valid Social Security number, rather than an Individual Tax Identification Number.<\/p>\n<p>The stimulus plan overwhelmingly passed the House on a suspended vote, meaning no amendments were included on the initial legislation. A mini-brushfire broke out in the Capitol Wednesday as members realized that the decision to refund tax payments to ITIN holders meant illegal immigrants could possibly benefit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/01\/30\/stimulating-tax-rebates-for-illegal-aliens\/\">Michele Malkin<\/a> quotes Tom Tancredo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This package will stimulate one thing for certain: more illegal immigration,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Tancredo. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just the latest unfortunate example of American workers footing the bill for illegal aliens.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Worse, a large portion of this money will just be sent back to the home countries of illegal aliens,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d concluded Tancredo. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So it might stimulate someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just not ours.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, it&#8217;ll buy some illegal votes for the Democrats, and that&#8217;s all that really matters isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the House of Representatives tried to reduce the rebate amount of my taxes so they &hellip; <a title=\"Way to shut the door, Congress\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1154\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Way to shut the door, Congress<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-illegal-immigrants","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}