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

[TN Rhodey]

Bill,

Yeah you are probably right. It is pretty much unheard of for 
construction/home improvement business and workers to not pay taxes. LOL!

Wally


>From: Bill Effros <bill at effros.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political 
>humor)
>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:04:37 -0400
>
>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>
>>>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>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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