[DCPatriot]

I’ve never figured out how you can pay taxes without a legal social security number, or why you would even try.

???

Geesh! They provide their employer with a fake SS number....the withheld payroll taxes are sent in quarterly by the employer to the US treasury...no refunds given on tax returns...it's FOUND MONEY to the federal and state coffers.

It's one of the main reasons the governments are slow to correct it. It's helping keep social security solvent.

At least that's what I'm told.

[Tarkus2040]

Just a small business owner, that identifies with the Conservative ideology of small government and tax cuts; capitalism.

I'm hopelessly liberal on immigration. They took the nerve to get across the border to work here....let them stay. Give them citizenship. Get them on the tax rolls.

Hmmm... Says all I need to know about you.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

They don't all have fake social security numbers though - many work for cash so they aren't having anything withheld.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Maybe you can explain to me how they came up with a figure of $9000 even if they were basing it on social security - no freaking way any illegal is making that kind of money. More likely they are in a $25,000 range which would only mean withholding of about $2000 a year

[raybbr]

Geesh! They provide their employer with a fake SS number....the withheld payroll taxes are sent in quarterly by the employer to the US treasury...no refunds given on tax returns...it's FOUND MONEY to the federal and state coffers.

Geesh! George Bush wants to allow them to collect SS on the monies that were paid in their "names" under a totalization agreement with mexico. How does that add up?