OH!
Earned Income Credit (The IRS site is good for something....)
In other words, why should the poor get back even more, IF they're getting a refund of more than they paid in?
It's just another reason (besides welfare) to stay poor....
Just watched Anderson Cooper's report on 60 Minutes...
by changeling 16 Replies latest jw friends
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flipper
Changeling- Mr. Flipper here. I think from what I've noticed is that when you have young people of any race , black, white, yellow, brown , red, etc. I think that mainly people don't snitch out of repercussions of what will happen to them personally if they do snitch. We live in extremely volatile times and people in the ghettos as well as young gangs in other countries, no matter what race ,are into self preservation first and foremost to themselves and then preserving the gang because of how it affects, once again, themselves first. There is so much violence in gang related activity , and it trancsends racial boundaries and goes into socio-economic problems in which young people are trying to identify and fit in anywhere they can , because they have nothing else to hold onto. And I feel that is where parents of all racial groups have failed , because some parents are too self absorbed to be bothered with up and coming late teens and early 20 year olds. So we gotta give em' hope
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ronin1
Flipthis:
As an African American, please let me advise you that many of us do not want to be poor or be on welfare.
When I was a single parent, poor- I really appreciated that tax break- the Earned Income Credit because getting back even a little more in my tax refund was needed.
I was on welfare at some point in my life but only until I was able to find a job and get off of welfare. Being out of work for 1 1/2 years was very hard. So any financial break and help from the gov't I received was needed.
I am no longer in a tax bracket that is considered "poor", but I am all for anyone getting tax breaks besides the "rich" because many "poor' people of all races work very hard year-round just to make ends meet and basically live paycheck to paycheck.
Sincerely,
Ronin1
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BrentR
I would really like to know how not turning in criminals is going to improve any aspect of life for any culture? Is that mindset going improve thier neighborhood at all?
Sometimes your worst enemy and biggest problem is the person looking back at you in the mirror. Whatever happened to being part of the solution and not the problem? It's always someone else's fault, blame "the man", the government, religion, corporations yada yada yada.
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mrsjones5
I was very troubled to hear that the "no snitching" policy is so pervasive in the African American community.
Which "African American Community" are you talking about? The one in the hood or the one in the suburbs? I get the feeling that you think this attitude is across the whole of the African American community which IMHO I would have to disagree with. I don't even think it's an attitude pervasive among older folks (60's generation and older), I see it mainly in some of the younger crowd of those in the hood. I don't subscribe to it and I'm not raising my children that way nor did my parents raise me that way nor did their parents. I guess I'm just getting rubbed the wrong way by that broad statement up there. Not all Blacks or African Americans (if you prefer) think the same way nor do we all live in the hood and worry about "street cred".
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ronin1
MrsJones5:
Thank you.
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mrsjones5
You're welcome Ronin1