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

[TN Rhodey]

Bill,

You are certain they pay taxes: how so?

Wally


>From: Bill Effros <bill at effros.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political 
>humor)
>Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:32:55 -0400
>
>Dave,
>
>It's a really tough problem with no simple answers.  Yes, the politicians 
>are pandering, but putting that aside, we are all somehow complicit.  The 
>last time I checked, our government had collected half a trillion dollars 
>on bogus Social Security numbers.  Those funds are never going to be paid 
>out to the people who paid them in, and that money is being used to bolster 
>everyone else's social security.
>
>I went out of my way to hire local "American" contractors to do work on my 
>house, but they all showed up with illegals in their employ after bitching 
>about how the immigrants were taking their jobs.  And the foreigners are 
>good workers, decent people.  They work hard, don't complain, clean up 
>after themselves, are courteous, pay taxes, -- in short they would be model 
>citizens and are a pleasure to have around.
>
>Meanwhile my house is like the United Nations.  In the last week we have 
>had Brazilians, Ecuadorans, Mexicans, Czechs, Colombians, Peruvians, a 
>Brit, a Frenchman, a Canadian, a Jamaican, all working like people used to 
>work when we were kids.
>
>I am certain they all pay taxes, and many of them will hang around long 
>enough to become citizens.  What's wrong with that?  They will make good 
>citizens.  But they are certainly eating the lunch of others who have been 
>here longer, and I feel their pain.
>
>There is no way we can track them all down and get rid of them.  Our 
>economy is dependent on them; we need them.  I have no answers, just a lot 
>of questions.  I think this solution is preferable to outsourcing all this 
>work around the globe.
>
>Bill Effros
>
>DCLewis1 at aol.com wrote:
>>Bill,
>>
>>Perhaps you are right, but based on nearly everything I see they are  
>>having their families here (where family often means a matriarch 
>>overseeing a  conglomeration of children from various sources). And of 
>>course if the child is  born in the US, for whatever reason, it's a US 
>>citizen. And once you have a  child as a US citizen and a parent who's not 
>>you are faced with the dilemma of  separating the mother and/or father 
>>(illegal aliens) from the child (US  citizen). Who woulda thunk, right? 
>>This is why our legislators get paid the big  bucks.  Do the legislators 
>>really care?  Of course they do, it's an election  year.
>>  Dave
>>
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