God forbid anybody like that should enter our country. |
Posted on 12/26/2004 4:24:56 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Related FR thread....Illegals Cost us $10 Billion a Year;Amnesty Would Nearly Triple Cost
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199631/posts
$150 BILLION!
Staggering amount that they don't have to contribute to SS or pay taxes on. This is a DISGRACE!!
Your welcome, anytime. My family and I have no problem supporting you and yours.
Amazing that so many Americans are willing to pay these workers. Illegal workers. $150 Billion. I'd say the People have spoken on this issue.
God forbid anybody like that should enter our country. |
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You're not supporting illegal aliens. They are subsidizing your standard of living.
Worry more about shiftless, lazy welfare chiselers who are 100% American. That's who is sucking up your tax money.
-ccm
Actually most of them DO pay taxes. They use fraudulent Social Security numbers, or the SS number of a relative, and pay taxes like anyone else. Employer withholding makes certain of this.
They are paying for your grandma's nursing home bills right now, and have no hope of ever claiming a penny back themselves.
The bigger problem by far is in health care, where illegal aliens are an intolerable burden on the public purse.
-ccm
I pay taxes, they get freebies from my taxes. They send their money to Mexico. They take from me and give me nothing. Therefore, I am supporting them.
After that glowing review of illegals, you've changed my mind completely.
Yawn. Just another anti-American La Raza talking point from bayourod.
They give you goods and services which are now greatly cheaper than they would have been, absent a giant pool of immigrant labor.
The article referred to global remittances of $150 billion. That includes Turks sending money back home from Germany, Chinese sending money back home from Malaysia, Indians sending money home from South Africa, etc.
No kidding. I wonder what our GDP growth rate would be without immigration holding down the cost of labor.
Their taxpayer freebies cost more than what the cheap goods could make up for. Perhaps you use their services, I don't.
Well, illegal immigrants work extensively in the construction trades, as indicated in the article. Perhaps on occasion you have entered buildings, or driven upon roads.
Yes, I knew you'd give that example.
A good example of some of those jobs that Americans don't want to do? I'd rather have an American do the job of building my roads and buildings, not an illegal.
Good point, the US contribution is probably only $149 billion.
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Here are guys who will walk 1200 miles to get to a place where they can make some money, and when they do they send it home to their mothers, wives, and children.