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

[DCLewis1 at aol.com]

Bill,
 
I think you and I are in violent agreement when it comes to the working  
illegals that pay taxes and take jobs that no American wants.   For  example, the 
illegal aliens I’ve observed in northern  Virginia work mostly in skilled or 
unskilled manual labor, but I don’t see  many Americans, especially young 
Americans, interested in any type of manual  labor; so if no American will take the 
job, and it has to be done, I think the  illegals are doing us a favor.  They 
are reported to be great  workers.  
 
Now if illegal immigration started to impact higher skilled jobs, I might  
react differently, but I haven't seen that happen yet.   On the other  hand I 
don't really track employment patterns, it might have happened.
 
As to the contributions illegal aliens that pay taxes make to Soc Security,  
you are doubtless correct they are an asset.   But how about  the  debits to 
their accounts for public schools, aid to dependent children, indigent  medical 
care, low cost housing, additional policing,......?  On balance, I  don’t 
think it’s even close, as a group these people are poorly paid and live  poorly, 
net is a huge minus just on the costs of public schools.   Yes  the feds make 
out with Soc Security, but state and local governments get taken  to the 
cleaners on social service costs - which is why state and local  governments are 
screaming at the federal government to do something about  illegal immigration, 
and which is probably why the feds have been, and will  probably continue to 
be, so feckless with enforcement.
 
Where we may disagree is regarding the illegals who are riding the social  
services infrastructure and not paying taxes at all, to include Soc  Security.  
You insist that's not the case with people working on your  house, and Brad 
may not dream about them, but believe me, they are  here.  If you go to a street 
corner in WDC you will find them selling  mangoes, water, whatever; on their 
own behalf, many are maids, many are day  laborers and don’t pay taxes and 
taxes aren’t paid on their behalf - Brad may  have heard of this category of 
illegal alien even if he's never employed  one.  These people, and their children, 
are really killing the social  services budgets.  My prior post gave an 
example.  They will tell you  they came to this country for a better life - and 
they're right.  I will  tell you they came to this country for a better life at 
your and my expense -  and I'll be right.  This category of illegal alien does 
not pay taxes  - at all.  They don't want to pay taxes, they'd rather keep the 
 nominal amount of $ they earn and let you and I pay for their social support 
 services.  It may sound heartless, but I think these people absolutely have  
to pay taxes, they cannot expect to just ride our social services 
infrastructure  - which is what they’re doing.  If they don’t pay taxes they should be  
deported except as services can be denied (and generally, I don't think  
services can be denied).  
 
One legislative change that would facilitate the deport option would  be to 
get rid of the law that makes anyone born in the US a US citizen whether  or 
not the parent(s) were US citizens - change that law and you could deport  whole 
"families" - that would be a start.  Correlate tax filings with  school 
enrollments, medical admissions, food stamps, etc, to identify who  was using 
social services without paying taxes - that would be another  start.  (Note: this 
doesn't mean everyone who doesn't pay some tax and uses  social services is 
deported, it just provides a finite starting list for  motivated inquiring 
minds.)  Insisting that churches and charitable  organizations that provide support 
for illegal aliens for a finite amount of  time, and then dump them on local 
governments, continue their support  indefinitely as needed would be another 
start.
 
I think the task of identifying free loading illegals is very doable, but  
that the federal government really doesn't want to take it on.  The  feds aren't 
serious about this and never have been.  The feds will tell you  they just 
can't find an estimated 11 million illegal aliens, but your  safe because they 
are locked on and tracking 8 terrorists from Miami; it's all  about their 
priorities, if they wanted to find illegal aliens they  could.  
 
JMO.
 
Dave