Backdoor Scam Money: The Child Tax Credit
Remember when Biden entered office Kamala was talking constantly about increasing the Child Tax Credit. At the same time hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors were crossing the border with a phone number and sometimes an address. The fix was in. They created a money transfer via the Tax Code.
The Child Tax Credit is a 'REFUNDABLE CREDIT', meaning when the credit gets your tax liability to $0, the credit keeps going below $0. I did taxes for a single Mother in California with 4 kids. She made 48K one year, which isn't much for California. She paid in $1800 one year. I got her back $4800. She profited from the Child Tax Credit. Basically she got other people's money. She didn't pay in $4800. The Tax Code is actually 'Subsidizing' raising kids.
Trust me, ILLEGALS that come here know our Tax Code Better than YOU
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The Child Tax Credit Racket: A Backdoor Wealth Transfer Hiding in Plain Sight
The post that sparked this discussion cuts through the usual political noise and gets straight to the heart of a fiscal scandal that the Washington establishment would prefer you ignore. It reads: “Remember when Biden entered office Kamala was talking constantly about increasing the Child Tax Credit. At the same time hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors were crossing the border with a phone number and sometimes an address. The fix was in. They created a money transfer via the Tax Code.
This isn’t conspiracy theorizing. It is a succinct, if blunt, summary of a policy confluence so brazen that it should have dominated every news cycle for years. Instead, the administrative state, abetted by a compliant media, normalized the wholesale transformation of the Internal Revenue Service from a revenue collection agency into a welfare distribution pipeline. From a conservative perspective, this represents not just a fiscal calamity, but a moral failure that incentivizes illegal immigration and punishes the responsible taxpayers who foot the bill.
To understand the scale of the scam, one must first dispel the progressive linguistic alchemy surrounding the term “tax credit.” In normal English, a credit reduces a liability. If you owe no liability, there is nothing to credit. But the modern tax code has twisted this logic into a pretzel. As the original post notes, the Child Tax Credit is "refundable," meaning the Internal Revenue Code treats the credit not merely as a shield against taxation, but as a sword to extract wealth from the Treasury. When that credit pushes a filer’s liability below zero, the government doesn’t stop; it simply cuts a check. This is not a tax refund. It is a direct cash grant disguised in IRS jargon.
The anecdote from the tax preparer is the empirical nail in the coffin: a single mother in California earning $48,000 a year paid $1,800 in federal income tax and received a refund check for $4,800. That is a net profit of $3,000 from the government on an income stream that, while modest for California, is firmly within the working class. She did not overpay the government. She did not loan Uncle Sam money interest-free. She was simply a conduit for redistributing other people’s money into her own pocket. The tax code is no longer funding the constitutional functions of government; it is subsidizing lifestyle choices, and in this case, specifically subsidizing children.
This “refundable credit” architecture is the vehicle for the backdoor scam. For decades, the conservative movement has warned against making the IRS an agent of social policy. Ronald Reagan’s 1986 tax reform was brilliant precisely because it severed the tax code from social engineering. Loopholes were closed, rates were flattened, and the dignity of work was respected. Fast forward to the post-Trump era, and the bipartisan consensus has drifted toward a destructive fusion of tax policy and welfare policy. When a family “profits” from filing their taxes, the social contract between the citizen and the state is shattered. The citizen is no longer a sovereign individual paying dues for shared services; they are a client of the state, and the state is the master.
The post’s central charge that this system was deliberately engineered as a magnet for illegal immigration is not just plausible; it is logically inescapable. As Vice President Kamala Harris talked endlessly about expanding the CTC, the southern border dissolved into chaos. Hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied alien minors surged across the border, often clutching a phone number and an address—not of distant relatives, but frequently of sponsors connected to a sprawling resettlement network funded directly and indirectly by the American taxpayer. The “fix was in” refers to the seamless integration of these minors into a tax apparatus designed to monetize their presence.
For an illegal alien who has overstayed a visa or crossed the border surreptitiously, the tax code is not a labyrinth to fear; it is an ATM to exploit. Through the use of Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs), individuals who are legally barred from working in the United States and who lack a valid Social Security number can still file tax returns and claim refundable credits. The IRS has, with deliberate bureaucratic precision, walled off the enforcement arm of immigration law from its “customer service” ethos. The agency audits small business owners and middle-class conservatives with ruthless efficiency, but it steadfastly refuses to verify the legal status of individuals claiming the Additional Child Tax Credit.
The post accurately states, “ILLEGALS that come here know our Tax Code Better than YOU.” This is the brutal truth. The cartels and the trafficking networks don’t just sell a crossing; they sell a destination package that includes immediate enrollment in the shadow welfare state. They understand the statutory nuance that U.S. citizens often miss: to claim the refundable portion of the child tax credit, a child does not need to be a U.S. citizen. They need merely a valid ITIN or Social Security number. For many unaccompanied minors, the process of being paroled into the interior and placed with sponsors generates the paper trail necessary to establish just enough legal presence to trigger these credits for the adults housing them.
The result is a massive, reverse-incentive machine. Every dollar Washington distributes through refundable credits to individuals who have no legal right to be in the country is a dollar that broadcasts to the rest of the world: *come, bring children, and the IRS will become your financier.* Meanwhile, the American family that plays by the rules watches their purchasing power evaporate due to inflation, much of it driven by out-of-control government spending on these very programs. The single mother in the example, living legally and working a job, is caught in a tragic irony. Her refund might seem like a jackpot, but it is a pittance compared to the systemic looting occurring on a grand scale, and it is paid for by debt that will crush her children’s generation.
Conservatism has long understood that you cannot have open borders and a robust welfare state simultaneously. The Founders envisioned a limited republic, not a global charity. The Child Tax Credit expansion, particularly the temporary supercharging of the credit under the American Rescue Plan, was a Trojan horse for a Guaranteed Basic Income for families, regardless of citizenship. The monthly checks that went out in 2021—halting child poverty at the stroke of a pen, we were told—were functionally a universal child allowance. But that pot of money does not appear out of thin air. It is extracted from the productive economy, or borrowed against the future, weakening the dollar and mortgaging national sovereignty.
The conservative solution is not to tinker with the credit’s phase-out thresholds, as some tame reformists suggest. The solution is a fundamental decoupling of welfare and taxation. A just tax system treats all citizens equally and asks only for the revenue necessary to execute the enumerated powers of the federal government. It does not pick winners and losers. It does not inform a single mother that her neighbor’s income is now, thanks to the wisdom of the IRS, hers. The refundable Child Tax Credit should be repealed in its entirety for non-citizens, and dramatically reformed for citizens perhaps replaced by an increased standard deduction that protects the genuinely poor from paying income tax, but refuses to wire them a check simply for breathing.
To prevent the “backdoor scam money” from flowing, mandatory E-Verify must be synced with the IRS database. If you are not authorized to work, you should not receive work-derived tax credits. It is a commonsense proposition treated as radical only because the bipartisan uniparty benefits from the cheap labor and the political patronage of the newly arrived. The original post calls this what it is: a fix. The political class gets a dependent voting base and corporate America gets suppressed wages, all lubricated by the Treasury. The taxpayer is the mark.
Ultimately, the outrage captured in the viral post is the outrage of a citizen who has peeked behind the curtain of the administrative state and seen the gears turning in reverse. The Tax Code is no longer just about roads, defense, and courts. It is a vast engine of redistribution. And every time a conservative hears the left claim that illegal immigrants “pay taxes,” the proper response is the one implied by this post: they may pay, but they take out far more than they put in through these refundable scams. It’s a negative tax rate dressed up in the garb of compassion.
The fix is indeed in, and it can only be broken by a return to first principles: no citizenship, no credit. Simplify, flatten, and stop the stealing. Anything less is complicity in the greatest heist of American prosperity in history.