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Message: <blockquote data-quote="briarcreekguy" data-source="post: 2759764" data-attributes="member: 16975">I'm all for the 14.5 percent flat tax, as applied to everyone. I do not believe that we should continue the earned income credit program, as it is a program that is rife with fraud. Why should we pay people, because that is what it is, a payment? Over the years I've worked with individuals that earned the same amount as I, yet they claimed grandchildren and other family members that they seldom saw, and at the end of the year received refund checks from 3-9 thousand dollars, while I ended up with a few hundred of my money back. If I recall correctly, in the last few years there have been cases in Florida and Arizona, where one address collected hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of dollars in EIC refunds for alien workers. Everyone should have skin in the game and shouldn't be able to get more money back than they pay in.</blockquote>