Are you saying that the drug buyer doesn't buy cars, clothes, haircuts, motel rooms, paper towels, mouthwash, furniture, etc?
Are you saying that the drug buyer doesn't buy cars, clothes, haircuts, motel rooms, paper towels, mouthwash, furniture, etc?Not with the money he's buying drugs with.
Increasingly, the drug trade within the US is run by gangs in Mexico. Do you think profits stay within the US or are exported south of the border?
In recent years the number of narcotics “gardens” in US national parks and federal land has increased dramatically. And as a result, so has the number of guards, many of whom are experienced smallholders from rural villages in Mexico. In desperation, having seen their own livelihoods swept away by imports of subsidised agricultural goods from the US, they risk the dangerous journey north to find any work they can.
Willingly or otherwise, many have ended up working for the new power brokers in the US narcotics business – Mexican drug cartels who, little by little have come to dominate the clandestine industry...
http://www.sundayherald.com/57851
Illegal immigrants are entitled to certain means tested welfare benefits like food stamps. If the FairTax increases the cost of food, will the amount of the grant have to be increased to compensate?