Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

IRS Handed Prison Inmates Over $1 Billion In C***D Relief: REPORT

GABE KAMINSKY
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
September 01, 2022

President Joe Biden’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gave a huge number of prison inmates at least $1.3 billion in C****-** stimulus checks, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

There are more than 1.1 million incarcerated individuals who took in the stimulus money, according to IRS data provided to the Free Beacon, as part of Biden’s $1.4 trillion American Rescue Plan. Those incarcerated who received the stimulus money includes roughly 163,000 people serving life sentences without parole, the IRS told Republican Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon in a letter obtained by the outlet.

“Democrats had every opportunity to stop taxpayer dollars from going to convicted criminals,” Mike Palicz, federal affairs manager for Americans for Tax Reform, a group seeking to lower federal spending, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Instead, Democrats blocked a Republican amendment that would’ve prevented inmates from receiving stimulus payments and sent up to $1,400 checks to more than one million incarcerated criminals.”

The American Rescue Plan was signed by Biden in March 2021 in order to provide relief to Americans amid the economic fallout of the C****-** p******c. Americans earning $75,000 or less per year were eligible for a $1,400 stimulus check under the plan and married couples filing jointly earning $150,000 or less were eligible for a $2,800 check.

Republicans overwhelmingly opposed the stimulus package, claiming its price tag was far too high. Republican senators backed an amendment put forth by Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy in March 2021, which Democrats rejected, that would have blocked prisoners from getting stimulus checks.

“Individuals were not denied Economic Impact Payments solely because they were incarcerated,” the IRS says on its website under a frequently asked questions page about The American Rescue Plan, explaining that inmates may have received funds if they filed a tax return in 2019 and 2020.

It is unclear how many inmates facing the death penalty received stimulus checks.

A spokesman for the IRS told the DCNF the agency “does not track the information related to incarcerated individual’s sentences” and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told the Free Beacon he does not have data on the matter.

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton had raised concerns in 2021 about the fact that under the plan prisoners would receive money, slamming the idea that someone like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 2013 Boston Marathon bomber, would get $1,400. Tsarnaev ended up raking in $1,400 in connection to the plan, the Boston Herald reported in January 2022.

“The Democratic Party is drunk with power, and their reckless billions in spending continue to funnel out of the United States Treasury with little to no guidance,” Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds told the DCNF upon learning of the IRS payments to prisoners.

The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment nor did The White House.

The Aardvark Is Ready

Prepare for incoming from all the TDS members who will tell you this is all very reasonable and Trump did a lot worse. LOL

Triple G

The law said they were eligible in 2020 and 2021. You are for equal treatment under the law!

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2021/03/10/stimulus-checks-prisoners-bill-biden-democrats-trump-republicans/6940581002/

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Not sure that the CARES act was entirely thought through and if after the CARES act went through the courts then the problem became evident. If the Republicans anticipated this during the writing of the CARES Act and then only made noise under the Biden Administration then they too are bums and the entire congress should be v**ed out as far as I am concerned...

Regardless, the Democrats are on record, every one of them as supporting paying prisoners.

Triple G

So are republicans. Some of them are making super asses of themselves in trying to demonize their opposing party when they themselves are guilty of the same. That bombastic incorrect propaganda is not sitting well with v**ers.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Not sure that is the case, when the first relief package was put out it was done so in a rush and it is unclear that it was even considered, in the latter round it was not only considered but v**ed upon. In my previous response I suggested that if the republicans did indeed consider prisoners receiving the payment then they are hypocrites but it remains unclear if it was only an oversight.

Triple G

You know that it's not going fly as anything other than campaign rhetoric.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Well that remains to be seen, most people are not in touch with actual events, click bait drives their perceptions. There is a record of the democrats k*****g the amendment. Personally after learning that the republicans did not object to the first bill that was passed under a Democrat House and Republican Senate only brings me more dissatisfaction with both parties.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

You are so correct.
Democrats are the definition of evil.
Their efforts to dehumanize and marginalize humans who oppose them is right out of Goeble's and Hitler's play book leading to genocide which is now being hinted at by democrats.

gorgehiker Loc: Lexington, Ky

Do you realize that your party demonizes reasonable Republicans like Liz Cheney? Hypocrisy.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Reasonable?

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Yeah, she is good and reasonable in the eyes of democrats, her dogged pursuit of Trump and participation in the one-sided inquisition would suggest to others that she is simply grandstanding for her own benefit, she just miscalculated the cost of doing so. Were she as reasonable as you suggest then she would have demanded that republicans be allowed to appoint their own participants in the inquisition, she did not, she favors the unfairness of the show trial.

Trump may be a jerk, in fact I wish he would quietly recede into a quiet life, but that does not mean that I could ever support the actions of the democrats for even a moment in their efforts to completely destroy the man and any who have supported him.

JRiepe Loc: Southern Illinois

You do know that some Democrats want to give felons the right to v**e. So this is just another example of Democrats buying v**es with taxpayer dollars.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Was or is there equal treatment under the law for Trump and Hillary for having classified documents and how they handled those documents?

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Biden proves again that Crime does pay.