What to do with the $800 billion the illegal aliens send home?

[justoffal]

Why not tax wages of the illegal aliens at 100% ?

Nope.... Make sure they get an SS number and that they know they can't collect from it later.
Remittances to other countries? 20 percent wire tax.

 

[Lisa558]

So I send $1000 to my daughter in Japan and you want a $100 slice?

WW

Are you an illegal alien?

 

[Rigby5]

Yes, you read that right - the illegals, while costing us $150 billion a year, send home $800 billion a year. How should Trump use this to America’s benefit?

Option 1) Tax the remittances by 25%, thereby recapturing the fortune the illegals cost America taxpayers and use it to offset their costs

Option 2) Tax the remittances by 50%, thereby recapturing the fortune we spend on them AND using the balance to secure the border and pay for deportations of criminal aliens

Option 3) Block remittances entirely, which will hurt the originating country and pressure them to take back the illegals (as some countries have said they won’t), and use the money for border security, deportations, and more

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/02/remittances-money-world-bank/

Wrong.
The illegal aliens are desperate and have to spend almost as much to get here as they are able to make.
And when they make money here, they produce over twice that in profits for their employers.

What is wrong with this OP is that it is 10 times exaggerated, and it also is illegal to prevent migrant Mexican workers from sending money back to Mexico.
{...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The money that Mexican migrants send home to their relatives grew by 7.6% in 2023, to reach a record $63.3 billion for the year, Mexico’s central bank said Thursday.

The money transfers, known as remittances, have been booming since the coronavirus pandemic, but the rate of growth continued to cool somewhat in 2023.

In 2022, remittances grew by 13.4%, totaling about $58.9 billion for the year as a whole. In 2021, remittances grew by an astounding 27.1%, totaling about $51.6 billion for that year.
...}

The reality is that migrant noncitizen workers pay taxes and make us all more wealthy, so are good for the USA.

 

[Rigby5]

Those people aren’t illegal aliens. And they provide jobs to tens of millions of people.

Why do you Progs always defend the wrong people? Illegals over citizens. Thugs over law-abiders. Islamic terrorists over Jews.

Anyone who is not a native American Indian is an "illegal alien" and the wealthy elite do not "provide" anything, but instead use their monopoly in credit to steal and extort the real workers.

There is no such thing as a "Islamic terrorists" since Islam prohibits invading others, and are purely defensive and legal.
In contrast, Zionist have the illegal and immoral claim to be the Chosen People who can steal whatever they want to call the Promised Land.

 

[Rigby5]

Are you an illegal alien?

Sending $1000 to a daughter in Japan harms the US and makes the US more poor.
That is also true if you by cars made overseas or iPhones made in China.
It harms the US equally.

People coming here to work does not harm the US at all, and produced over 3 times the wealth that they get paid.
And that wealth stays here.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Trump will make real headway with them. He has a lot of ammunition, especially blocking remittances.

What is president Musk's position.?

 

[Mac-7]

Remittance tax is on wire transfers out of the country.

Illegals, legal, and citizens would pay the tax when remitting money out of the country.

WW

You failed to answer my question

But that's par for the course with libs

 

[Lisa558]

I hope you don't end up in hospital and blurt out that bullshit to a filipina that wipes your ass or removes your catheter.

Hospitals don’t hire illegals.

 

[Rigby5]

Which is Mexico's 2nd biggest industry. That is FACT, people.

Remittances sent from the US to Beanerville are behind only the Socialized (diarrheatown IS a socialist shithole) Oil Industry, Pemex. Which, being socialists, they of course stole it from the US, Dutch and English. The Auto Industry may have displaced Pemex in recent years. But, it's still mostly American.

But remittances from the US are still a major, major, MAJOR Industry. Been that way since -- Forever.

I'm for Option 3.

The only good thing that can be said about Mexico is....... They have very good neighbors to the North.

And yes, I've been there. Both the Atlantic and Pacific. More like the Caribbean and Pacific. Or Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific. Mexico is HUGE. The biggest problem with Mexico is -- It's full of Mexicans. They have everything else a Country could ask for to be successful. But they aren't. Never have been. Never will be.

Wrong.
Mexico used to be very successful, and it was only after we illegally invaded them twice and took over all their industry that they no longer are successful.
Its called colonial imperialism, and that is why we arm and train their police and military, in order to prevent them from having free elections of getting paid a decent wage.
What you are forgetting is that while we have some protections in the US, unions, you will get assassinated and disappear if you try to get justice in places we control, like Mexico.

 

[Mac-7]

Fine with that. Hit both the employer of the illegal and the illegal with 100%.

WW

Tax all the illegal aliens

But only fine employers who knew they are illegal

 

[Rigby5]

Hospitals don’t hire illegals.

Yes they do.
All the illegals have to do is borrow a SS number or act as an independent contractor.
Many of the people I dealt with in hospitals could not speak English.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Are you an illegal alien?

Remittance taxes are on transfers of money out of the country. They apply to illegals, legals, and citizens.

Financial transfer companies don't know you status.

WW

 

[Rigby5]

Tax all the illegal aliens

But only fine employers who knew they are illegal

Everyone is already taxed, and the whole USA already is greatly benefitting from the immigrant labor.
It is labor done OUTSIDE the US that produces products then sold to the US that is harming us.
We should want all the immigrants to work here that we can get, instead of having them work outside the US.
We benefit for all the work they do IN the US, and lose from any work they out OUTSIDE the US.

 

[Woodznutz]

No, I want to tax what they send home rather than encourage more of them to come in, you liberal loon.

I understand with your fat federal pension they do YOU no harm, but they are having an awful impact on the working class - they drive rents up, property values down, and ruin the public schools.

Plus, the gang activity is so bad from the illegals who have taken over a town next to me that the police hace told us not to walk the bike path after dark. There have been rapes and murders.

But you don’t care. I thought you libs were for the working class.

Most who send money home are here legally. It is a drain on the economy as those remittances must be replaced by more government borrowing. OTOH it does mitigate inflation somewhat.

 

[kyzr]

So I send $1000 to my daughter in Japan and you want a $100 slice?

WW

Or a $50 slice. That's how it works.

 

[WorldWatcher]

You failed to answer my question

But that's par for the course with libs

I'm not a lib.

I'm an anti-trumper Republican.

There's a difference.

I also think beyond the "bumper sticker" mentality of most cultists.

But if you need a direct answer, yes I'm a born here American citizen.

WW

 

[Rigby5]

Remittance taxes are on transfers of money out of the country. They apply to illegals, legals, and citizens.

Financial transfer companies don't know you status.

WW

Remittance taxes are inherently illegal and unethical.
There is no legal basis to justify them.
When you make arbitrary laws, that is a dictatorship.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Hospitals don’t hire illegals.

Hospitals often employ legal immigrant staff, their remittance would be taxed.

WW

 

[Woodznutz]

I don’t want to argue with a leftist who prioritizes illegals over Americans. I want to hear from regular people as to how we can capture the $150 billion they cost us WITHOUT encouraging more of the scofflaws to invade.

The $150 billion remains in the domestic economy, although it like most welfare dollars doesn't produce much.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Remittance taxes are inherently illegal and unethical.
There is no legal basis to justify them.
When you make arbitrary laws, that is a dictatorship.

Remittance taxes are not illegal. That is a legal standard.

"Unethical" is a moral standard. Some agree, some (as in this thread) are all for increasing taxes on legal immigrants and citizens so they feel they can "stick it to illegals".

WW