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One thing I like about the tax cuts Bush made (and why they should be permanent) is that they grew the economy. Let’s look at this optimistically. If we can keep taxes down, the money that doesn't get taken will expand the economy and grow tax revenues due to all the newly employed folks paying their (smaller) taxes.

So if those people who are here illegally are given green cards or workers passes, wouldn't they too have to pay taxes? Wouldn't that actually help? I would also have them pay a 10% hospital and school tax to support the refunding of something they've been getting for nothing these past several years.

Your premise is golden. The problem is we need to actually control illegal immigration from top to bottom. And I am not listening to any of the BS that comes from both sides about how out of control it is with so many already here,and how hard it will be to find them, we have done much tougher things in this country.

We can chose to control it tomorrow if we want to.

As long as pubbies are in control of the Federal budget it has a chance, better than 50/50. Does that mean pubbies do not have the potential to be giant big spenders as well,we learned otherwise.

What will kill the budget is if the demon rats gain total control of both houses and the White House. Than the economy is doomed.

Even under Bubba the congress still had a lot of say about the budget thats why things went well until the last two years.

We need to always remember the rats have stayed in office for years by simply buying votes. They will fund any constituency for anything as long as it buys more votes whether it be gays, blacks hispanics or welfare you name it they will buy it for the sake of votes.

They truly do not care a wit about the welfare of the country. We all know that.

I don't know how, at this point, you could tax them enough to repay the American Tax Payers for the bill we have and are footing for education and health care plus more... If we did, they would want to return to the countries they came from because most couldn't afford the bill.

Speaking strictkly for our town the hospital system is struggling under the burden of so many non-paying customers and these costs have to be made up elsewhere -- in the guise of higher insurance premiums and for higher property taxes for the public safety personnel.

There is no free lunch, we may be getting cheap labor but we are paying for it in many other ways.