Mike Gumbleton - Let me get this straight. This hypothetical family will pay NO taxes, but you're complaining because they won't qualify to get EXTRA money from those tax payers who will still be paying taxes. Is that what I think you wrote?

Wow! We really did become a socialist country under Obama if we think it is fair for people who already qualify for thousands of dollars in government benefits and owe no taxes should also be allowed to take tax credit.

My working-class parents are rolling in their graves. They never made more than $8,000 in combined income, paid an effective federal tax rate of 22%, an Alaska state tax rate of 25% (this was a fixed percentage, not income adjusted) and payroll taxes of 3%. There were no government benefits or tax credits. You got a refund if you paid more in than you owed.

They would be absolutely gobsmacked at how dependent on government working-class people are today. I don't think they'd think it was a good thing.