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...
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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?
Not a valid argument for maintaining the status quo, i.e. income tax and the IRS.
Criminals don't follow the rules anyway, which is why they are criminals.
Indulge me this: how does the present system keep capital generated through illegal means in the US and, for bonus points, why will the FairTax send gangs scrambling to send their ill-gotten gains offshore or south of the border?