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Originally Posted by cody
I like everything about your idea except the no taxes thing. These people will need to put their kids in school, drive on the street to their job, utilize police and fire, and generally enjoy the "fruits". Why shouldn't they pay some taxes?
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'Cause we'd be paying them the equivalent of slave labor wages. Is it right to pay someone half minimum wage, then take 15% of that away? They would be well below the poverty level, so if you want to apply tax laws to them, they would in fact
receive welfare, not pay taxes.
The idea would be to allow them to do what they're already doing, but legally. They're already getting paid illegally low wages, and are not paying taxes, which helps the economy. The rest of us who are benefiting from their willingness to work for so cheap can take up the tab for the social services they use... we're already doing it today, and it's not so bad, is it?
If you want to figure out a way to reduce wasted taxpayer money, you're barking up the wrong tree. How about we stop spending $100B/year on wars first. For the amount we've spent on Iraq, we could give each undocumented worker in the US $65,000. We literally spend *half* of the US taxpayers money on the military in this country, and that *doesn't* include the additional $100B/year we spend on Iraq. Then there's the huge pig Social Security is... and how much worse it will be as the baby-boomers retire. There's plenty of bloated government programs to save money on without trying to prevent the 12M illegals in the US from educating their children, or denying them basic healthcare.