Speech #1090138920

As drafted amendment would prevent legalized workers and guest workers from receiving the earnedincome tax credit even though these same workers are required to pay both income and payroll taxes. I remind my colleagues that. under current law. illegal workers are not entitled to the earnedincome tax credit and S. 2611 does not change that. Instead. this amendment denies people who are paying both income and payroll taxes a tax credit that other similarly situated taxpayers receive simply because these people are legalized workers and guest workers and not naturalized citizens. This is distinction that should have no relevance for purposes of receiving the earnedincome tax credit. To deny these legalized taxpayers the right to the earnedincome tax credit is unjustified and grossly inequitable.