[Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political humor)

[Bill Effros]

Dave,

It's a really tough problem with no simple answers.  Yes, the 
politicians are pandering, but putting that aside, we are all somehow 
complicit.  The last time I checked, our government had collected half a 
trillion dollars on bogus Social Security numbers.  Those funds are 
never going to be paid out to the people who paid them in, and that 
money is being used to bolster everyone else's social security.

I went out of my way to hire local "American" contractors to do work on 
my house, but they all showed up with illegals in their employ after 
bitching about how the immigrants were taking their jobs.  And the 
foreigners are good workers, decent people.  They work hard, don't 
complain, clean up after themselves, are courteous, pay taxes, -- in 
short they would be model citizens and are a pleasure to have around.

Meanwhile my house is like the United Nations.  In the last week we have 
had Brazilians, Ecuadorans, Mexicans, Czechs, Colombians, Peruvians, a 
Brit, a Frenchman, a Canadian, a Jamaican, all working like people used 
to work when we were kids.

I am certain they all pay taxes, and many of them will hang around long 
enough to become citizens.  What's wrong with that?  They will make good 
citizens.  But they are certainly eating the lunch of others who have 
been here longer, and I feel their pain. 

There is no way we can track them all down and get rid of them.  Our 
economy is dependent on them; we need them.  I have no answers, just a 
lot of questions.  I think this solution is preferable to outsourcing 
all this work around the globe.

Bill Effros

DCLewis1 at aol.com wrote:
> Bill, 
>
> Perhaps you are right, but based on nearly everything I see they are  having 
> their families here (where family often means a matriarch overseeing a  
> conglomeration of children from various sources). And of course if the child is  
> born in the US, for whatever reason, it's a US citizen. And once you have a  
> child as a US citizen and a parent who's not you are faced with the dilemma of  
> separating the mother and/or father (illegal aliens) from the child (US  
> citizen). Who woulda thunk, right? This is why our legislators get paid the big  
> bucks. 
>  
> Do the legislators really care?  Of course they do, it's an election  year.
>  
> Dave 
>
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