The Treasury Department has estimated that a large majority of the EITC merely compensates for a portion of the Federal income. payroll. and excise taxes paid by the lowincome tax filers who qualify to receive it. The earnedincome tax credit is not welfare. it is an earned benefit in the Tax Code that is available to all tax paying. lowincome working families with children. Immigrant families who are legal residents are subject to the same tax as other workers In America. They have the same tax burdens. the same tax benefit as everyone else under current law. The Sessions amendment would change that. depriving legal immigrant families of one of the primary tax benefits for lowincome families with children in the Tax Code. To do so would be terribly unjust. I urge my colleagues to reject the amendment.
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