why in the world would we want to do that?
Nobody takes the right wing seriously about the economics or the law, Constitutional or otherwise.
We subscribe to capitalism not socialism on a national basis.
We should make money not just lose money on public policies and border policy in particular.
We are talking about hundreds of billions of your tax dollars that are going to these criminal illegals and not pocket change. Either you give a shit about how your tax dollars are being blown or you don't. Just saying.
EVERY non-partisan study concludes that undocumented foreigners pay as much in taxes as they receive in services. It's a wash. Nice try, but no cigar, just debunked allegations that don't withstand serious scrutiny.
I doubt that myself.
There is a massive contribution. Twenty-Million people will have an impact on sales tax receipts; they have to shop somewhere, they are taxed just like anyone else when they buy something, etc…
However, I doubt they contribute as much as they consume.
The “hundreds of billions of dollars” argument is total crap though.
What is also ignored by the right is that the expenditures will be roughly the same (as well as the service) regardless of whether the illegal aliens are here or not.
You can doubt all you like
OR you can research the subject from
ALL sides. The only and I mean the ONLY tax you can dispute is the income tax. AND - even there, they do pay the tax.
I don't see how they would pay income taxes.
You are leaving off the social security taxes that most workers pay. If they are getting paid cash under the table instead of an employer hiring a payroll employee; there is no SS tax being paid by that worker. Thusly the SS system "suffers" from that loss of payment into the pool which retirees draw upon.
I'll be happy to look at your math.
The right wing is mad because the Republicans instituted the income tax which is a plank out of the Communist Manifesto and they try to make you believe that undocumented foreigners do not pay the tax. Yet, according to the chief actuary of the Socialist Security Administration, about 75 percent of undocumented foreigners DO pay the tax.
Again, I'm not seeing how the day laborer is paying income taxes. You call a lawn service out of the yellow pages with uniformed employees, a company van, bonded and insured workers who get paid hourly...I'm pretty sure they are paying income taxes on their W2s.
Their immigration status does not negate their responsibility to pay - or so the Instant Robbery Service (the IRS) says.
You sound like an idiot when you say those things.
So, the majority of those here without papers get an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, pay the tax, and when amnesties are offered, those who have been paying are good to go and have no government agencies wanting to collect from them. It's one less bureaucrat at the door.
Unless you know the whole of the number of illegal aliens, you have no idea if those who do have a ITIN are the majority or not.
Hispanics have bigger families than you do, so they have gas guzzlers. I quit keeping up with it, but last I heard there was more than 40 cents a gallon federal tax on gasoline. Cigarettes, cervaza (beer) and other alcoholic drinks figure into the mix. So, yeah, sorry, but at the end of the day, it's a wash. Well, that and add the $12 BILLION DOLLARS a year undocumented foreigners pay into Socialist Security (money they can never get back in retirement) and it all begins to add up. We may wish it were not true, but if foreigners were not profitable, the rich would have already gotten rid of them.
Again, if you don't have a social security number, it is highly unlikely you're paying SS taxes.
Again, you sound like an idiot when you say those things (Socialist Security).
You've become an instant idiot.
Foreigners who come here without papers can be issued an
Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. The IRS don't give a shit whether or not you're as the National Socialists call it - "
legal" or not. If you're working, you still owe the tax.
Obviously it
DOES take a Harvard degree for some of you people to grasp this. Coming into the United States without papers is a civil misdemeanor. You
might have to pay a $250 fine and get deported
if caught coming in. IF you're not caught coming in, it is not a crime to be here. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Evading the income tax is a federal criminal felony with serious time behind it.
So, most of the foreigners get the
Individual
Taxpayer
Identification
Number. According to the Socialist Security Administration:
"...
our projections suggest that the presence of unauthorized workers in the United States has, on average, a positive effect on the financial status of the Social Security program. For the year 2010,1 we estimate that the excess of tax revenue paid to the Trust Funds over benefits paid from these funds based on earnings of unauthorized workers is about $12 billion."
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_notes/note151.pdf
Also see this:
The Facts About the Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN)
If you have to call me names for opposing the 16th Amendment - which NEVER met constitutional muster when it was illegally ratified is a plank out of the Communist Manifesto, then you realize what the dumb asses on the right don't understand:
I'M NOT LEFT, SOCIALIST, OR DEMOCRAT. I'm the last of the constitutionalists and owe neither side of the aisle my loyalty. It's just that the left, via Hegelian Dialectics conned the right into doing their dirty work for them, flipping them and now the wall worshipers are more committed to their own destruction than the left is.
I had to add this from personal experience:
Some Mexican guys I knew deal in cash and pay taxes quarterly. The rednecks "
see" it and ***** about it. The rednecks just "
know" - and would bet their last dime on it that these cash workers don't pay taxes. Yet they do. And I really know because I volunteered for a while in a Latino non-profit organization to learn what is really being taught AND I know who does their income tax returns. These guys get a kick out of watching stupid people swear at them, curse them, and make false allegations. I'm embarrassed for the uninformed dim wits that have bought their own propaganda.
Even if they didn't pay income taxes, I'd STILL support them. Anything that gets rid of that cancer is welcome news. Adding insult to injury, back in the middle and late 1990s the 16th Amendment was on life support when Tea Party Republicans saved it because they needed some kind of leverage to justify their stupidity toward foreigners.