Rand Paul: ‘Refundable Tax Credits Are Just Welfare,’ You Can Still Get It Even if Your Parents Are in the U.S. Illegally

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PAUL: "Well refundable tax credits are just welfare. So the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit aren't really earned. They're just welfare payments. They don't come out of your taxes, they come out of someone else's taxes. It's about $100 billion and it's said to have about a 25 percent fraud rate. Actually if your parents come in here illegally they can still get the child tax credit, because if you were born here and you're now a citizen and your parents who came into the country illegally can file for a tax credit for you. So the whole thing needs to be reformed. We really shouldn't have refundable tax credits. We should just call that welfare and then we debate how much welfare we have. But we already have a ton of welfare, but you have to cut spending, you have to look at entitlements. You also have to make the states pay their fair share.”