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Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes
CNN ^ | 04/15/08 | AP

Posted on 04/15/2008 7:48:47 PM PDT by Is2C

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FairTax


61 posted on 04/16/2008 3:39:54 PM PDT by purpleraine
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Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes

And cost Trillions.

62 posted on 04/16/2008 3:49:34 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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Let me help even more...
There are dozens of links to this topic within this one article...
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php?id=486375

Good one here...
http://www.illegalaliens.us/

Who is luring them here...?
http://www.reportillegals.com/
http://wehirealiens.com/

This one will interest you...
http://illegal.globalincidentmap.com/home.php

http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/isacrime.html

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kouri/060622
http://www.victimsofillegalaliens.com/
http://www.mothersagainstillegalaliens.org/site/index.php


63 posted on 04/16/2008 6:02:56 PM PDT by RavenATB
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I’d have to mull it over some more, but the basic thrust is, to me, no different from when the Devil tempted Jesus by offering him the world. To me, that is akin to worshiping materialism and the economics that go with it.

Translated into the modern day, the rule of law is the secular form of what we have been taught from the Bible. The supposedly pragmatic economic arguments fail to recognize the role of guiding principles. It looks like just another form of liberal relativism and situational ethics that just leads to any of a number of forms of social chaos.

So, my suspicion is that pragmatism without principles is like cheating, like raw opportunism without regard to who gets hurt, like functioning without standards that recognize various forms of excellence. In fact, pragmatism without principles destroys social progress, innovation...it creates a soulless, spiritless world where you just live for today...anyway, this needs to be thought about a lot more carefully than this...


64 posted on 04/17/2008 8:48:01 PM PDT by bioqubit
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E-mail from a California teacher - Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I’m not talking a glass of milk and roll — but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America ... (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them “Putas” whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I’ll pay more for tomatoes.

We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won’t have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about “politically correctness” that we don’t have the will to do anything about it.

CHEAP LABOR? Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage.

Consumers don’t want expensive produce.

Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs.

But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase “cheap labor” is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.”

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an “earned income credit” of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.

He qualifies for food stamps.

He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.

His children get free breakfasts and lunches
at school. He requires bilingual teachers and books.

He qualifies for relief from h igh energy bills.

If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our)taxpayer’s expense.

He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.

He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.

Working Americans
are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.

The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. ‘AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON’T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!’


65 posted on 04/18/2008 12:05:37 PM PDT by TheresaKett
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