Posted on 03/25/2005 9:03:21 AM PST by Ramonan
Coming in legally with Newt's blessing and then working under the table for cash are not mutually exclusive.
The only difference is that they would be legal migrants working for cash and evading the tax law. Unless there is enforcement, the employers will place profits in front of respect for the law and they will continue with the lawless criminal behavior that they are practicing now.
The open border types like to pretend that employment and tax laws will suddenly and magically be more enforceable and enforced after we install a guestworker program but they never actually tell us which huge bureaucracy is actually going to do all this enforcing and why if it will be possible in the future it is supposedly impossible to do now.
The radio was reporting this am that hundreds of businesses were being prosecuted for hiring illegals. Don't know if they were all in the southwest, but Logan Airport was exposed last night as having employed a cleaning service that hired illegals from Brazil. They were busy in supposedly secure areas of the airport. Hugh headline in the Boston Globe and an embarrassment for Gov. Romney...along with the Big Dig mess.
I'm thinking that if a guest worker program were started, a database system would have to be implemented to ensure that the guest workers were actually working.
If I were a guy in charge of such a thing and saw a number of guest workers in country with no documented income, I'd be curious enough about their activities - after a reasonable period of time - that I'd want some fresh info as to where they are and what they're doing.
Action taken would depend on what they're doing and how faithful they were about updating their whereabouts.
But people that hire these guys want absolutely no proof of their having done so, and that's why I'm convinced that most if not all of the illegals are working under the table. Deductions taken from their wages are probably not reported, so we're taking a double hit: The lost taxes as well as some serious money going out-of-country.
We're helping Vicente Fox's economy at a hell of a cost.
Think about the Florida Department of Child Welfare as a reference. They are not trying to look after the health and welfare of even a fraction of that many children yet just about once a month Bill Oreilly is telling us about another family of pathetically starved foster children.
The politicians pushing the guestworker program have no intention of spending money on building an enforcement bureaucracy on that scale.
Yeah, I know; I was just thinking "out loud" as it were. It isn't going to happen.
I know most if not all government bureaucracies are grossly inefficient, but Florida has to be at the bottom of the heap.
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