“This government is broken.”
I’m going to throw this out for discussion. I’ve heard a number of times that some of the illegals somehow get (or give) phony Social Security Numbers to their employers.
Not going into where they get these numbers, I’m interested in what goes on when fake or phony SSNs are used.
How does it work?
Does the employer, in good faith, withhold the payroll taxes and send the taxes on to the Government? That would mean that the illegals are paying into Social Security, but will never draw on it. But more seriously, that would mean that our Federal government has volumes of data on payroll taxes being collected — for which no person is filing returns. That must be a very large sum of money. And it would be a simple thing to determine where these people work and do the deportations required.
Another possibility. Perhaps the employers KNOW which persons ARE illegal and that they don’t have REAL SS numbers. So the employers can simply pocket the payroll taxes, rather than send it on to the Government. This would mean that many employers are keeping double books, the real books, and the phony books, showing they are collecting taxes.
My point is: there is a lot of money to be gained or to be lost by this so-called immigration reform. I’m beginning to think that this is as big a corruption issue as Prohibition.........
If we only had a Executive Branch which would enforce our Federal laws — even at the level of reconciling the withholding taxes — we could make some progress in cleaning up this “money laundering scheme” — but alas we don’t.
You’ve hit on a very good point and I wish I knew the answer. I’ve heard that many of the SS numbers are duplicates or the SS numbers of deceased taxpayers.
You would think that in the first case that the legitimate tax payer would be audited for not reporting income, and that in the second case their would be an investigation into taxes coming in from a dead taxpayer.
I suspect that many employers know full well that the workers are illegal and simply pocket the money. In the case of the IRS I suspect they have some computer program that they run that tells them which are the likely bogus funds and they simply ignore the fraud and bag the money.
I think that the fraud and corruption involved on all sides of this will eventually rock this Republic right to its foundations. I think this is part of the reason for the desperation to pass this bogus amnesty, before anyone gets too much time to study the problem.