Mostly Mexicans
by digby
Jesus Christ this guy's a monster:
We're going to get paid for it one way or the other,” Sessions said of the wall. “I know there's $4 billion a year in excess payments, according to the Department of the Treasury's own inspector general several years ago, that are going to payments to people — tax credits that they shouldn't get. Now, these are mostly Mexicans. And those kind of things add up — $4 billion a year for 10 years is $40 billion.
"There are a lot of ways we can find money to help pay for this.”
Presumably the report that Sessions was citing was a July 2011 report by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration that said individuals who are not authorized to work in the U.S. have been paid $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits. But it did not mention Mexicans or any other nationalities.
I guess he thinks there are a ton of kitchen workers and nannies filing federal income tax returns and getting billions of dollars in credits. And the federal government will claw back all that money when they are rousted out of their homes and sent back to Mexico. That way all those evil "illegals" will pay for that wall themselves. Bwaaaahahahahaha!
But guess what? Those people also pay taxes and a lot more than what they're getting back in credits to society at large. But hey, whatever. As long as we "get 'em out!, amirite?
Sessions is a malevolent horror. I think people are understimating the threat of him at the helm of the Justice Department.
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