Coordinating the EITC with the $500 perchild credit will still give EITC families earning more than $18.000 a net tax cut. Other reforms target fraud. which would cost $37 billion over the next 5 years under current law. The only actual benefit reductions would affect childless taxpayers (who. before 1993. were never eligible for the EITC). illegal aliens. tax cheats. and affluent taxpayers (who never. should have received EITC benefits). Democrats say Republicans want to cut benefits to the poor and needy. But Medicaid (health care insurance for the needy) spending in the Balanced Budget Act would go from $89 billion in 1995 to $127 billion in 2002a 43percent increase.
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