In his state of the union address, Obama said about the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC):

There are other steps we can take to help families make ends meet, and few are more effective at reducing inequality and helping families pull themselves up through hard work than the Earned Income Tax Credit. Right now, it helps about half of all parents at some point. But I agree with Republicans like Senator Rubio that it doesn’t do enough for single workers who don’t have kids.

So, does the “strong” conservative senator from Florida want to expand the EITC? Was Obama mistaken? I have not seen where Rubio claimed that Obama lied about him. The truth is that Republicans love the refundable EITC, which is nothing but welfare, as I point out here.

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