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

[Bill Effros]

Wally,

The people working on my house are earning $25 an hour from established 
mulitmillion dollar a year contractors.  The contractors know they face 
serious jail time if they fail to pay taxes, and they know they are an 
industry closely watched by the IRS.  I am more sure the people working 
on my house are paying taxes than I am sure you are paying taxes.

If you think they are not paying taxes, turn in the employers to the 
IRS.  You get a percentage of what's recovered.

Bill Effros



TN Rhodey wrote:
> Bill,
>
> You are certain they pay taxes: how so?
>
> Wally
>
>
>> From: Bill Effros <bill at effros.com>
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>> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> 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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