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Originally Posted by TriGem2k
Well I talked to the women finally or errr had a conversation traslated though her son and she admitted to having an expired passport and then I was given the sad story of only being here so she can be with her family blah blah blah.
I'm letting it go, getting it fixed on my own dime and thats that.
I'm pissed that no one does anything to get these leaches out of our country! I pay taxes, you pay taxes and they do nothing!
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I wouldn't fold that easy man. I'd politely ask them to cough up a COD check or face the consequences of a disgruntled Porsche owner. I mean I'm not going to ask for a king's ransom but they need to pay you something. Anything.
As for the illegals not paying taxes. That's not entirely true. I have a ton of friends who own all manner of companies that deal in hospitality, catering, restaurants, construction, landscaping, cleaning services, etc. They all employ illegals. Well these people don't show up one morning and say "Hi, I just hopped the big fence..can I have a yob?". From what I'm told 98% of them produce a social security card that either belongs to someone who died, moved out of the country for good, etc. These people are payed by check, no cash under the table jobs (huge fines for that, not to mention IRS heat). FIT, medicare, Social Security taxes are deducted each week just like us legal citizens. Now when you consider that it's believed that there are enough illegals to fill a large state...well that's A LOT of money sitting in accounts that will never be collected from. Probably tens of billions of dollars. The illegals are long gone by then. They typically stay a few years and go back home with their savings because you really can't hack it on minimum wage in this country for too long. And the really ironic thing about this point is that we are losing as many as 3 retired workers (mostly baby boomers) for every new worker. In other words we don't have enough people paying into social security to comensate for the fact that retiring workers are living longer and taking out more than they put in.
And what's more, the LEGAL immigrants are filling jobs that pay way higher than the average U.S. income like financial analysts, IT, computer programmers, medical, etc. because we don't have enough citizens with enough math and science in their educational backgrounds. I think we should be more concerned with the issue of why we need legal immigrant workers vs why we have so many illegal workers...although the illegals seem to leaving due to the long recession and Americans more willing to take any minimum wage job.