Posted on 10/22/2008 8:34:13 AM PDT by NCjim
This guy probably shared an apartment with five other guys and walked to work or rode the bus. Does this match your lifestyle?
Time to head home to Mexico, Jose. Your $100K will go much farther there than in NYC.
No, all he needs to do is wait until after the next up and coming, then either Obama or McCain will provide amnesty to him and all his illegal brethren.
It actually might have been withheld under a "borrowed" SS#. Several years ago, my father who was nearly 80 years old at the time, was accused by the IRS of not reporting some of his income on his tax return, and told he owed substantial penalties for the non-reporting, in addition to more taxes than had already been withheld on the "unreported" income, because his tax bracket was higher than the withholding rate that had been used. Seems some illegal working as a busboy in a Brooklyn restaurant had used my father's SS# to get his job, and so all the busboy's wages and tips had been reported to the IRS under my father SS# (and Medicare, unemployment, and SS# withholdings had been made on these wages and tips, in addition to taxes). There was no evidence that he had used my father's name.
It took my father over a year to get the IRS to admit this wasn't his income, and my father was a retired Foreign Service Officer who currently held top secret security clearance in connection with part time contract work he was doing for the CIA. When he finally got the IRS to quit communicating with him via threatening form letters and address the issue at hand, he presented readily verifiable evidence of his part-time CIA employment, and Foreign Service pension, and the IRS backed down quickly, in the face of the laughable implausibility of the notion that he'd been working as a busboy on the side (and while residing several hundred miles away from the restaurant in question, in a home he'd owned for 30+ years). If he'd actually been a restaurant worker or manual laborer or just some ordinary blue collar Joe, especially one who lived in the NYC area, I don't know that it ever would have gotten sorted out, at least not without him spending more in legal fees than the IRS was claiming he owed.
What do you think? Not only was he not paying Federal Income Tax, he most likely wan't paying into Social Security and was not paying New York state and local taxes. He also benefited from free taxpayer provided medical care, education and probably housing assistance.
Just goes to show you how much better off we would all be with Government out of our lives. If we didn't need to pay all those taxes we could buy a house and a car with CASH! The credit crunch wouldn't effect us at all.
More Obama doctrine economics in play here, courtesy of ACORN community organizing.
*sniff*...pass me a tissue.
Its getting harder and harder to distinguish MSM from a John Semmens parody article..
At the time...yes indeed. I lived with two other guys, paid my tuition myself and worked full time in a factory until I graduated from college at age 27. Ate Ramen Noodles and and Mac and Cheese more times than I cared to. No girlfriends, as I don’t have time and couldn’t afford them.
Are they not selling a home to this guy because he is an illegal immigrant? No, they would love to keep violating the law and sell a house to him (wink, wink). The problem is that the banks are sitting on millions of foreclosed homes that were sold to previous illegal immigrants (nod, nod).
Yes. One must appreciate that these lawbreaking institutions are now all paying the toll for unintended consequences. It is to bad that obeying the law is the last thing they want to do, but we can at least know that by them losing their shirts they will be forced into compliance. Score one for the US taxpayer that now has to pick up the tab for this foolishness.
Then I am going to guess that he made his money by working long hours, the same way i made mine.
So, take $10,000.00 of his $100,000.00 and hire an immigration lawyer, pay all the fees, and become a resident. Sheesh, it ain’t that difficult.
Your comment gets to the very heart of what I knew to be one of the keys to fixing illegal immigration.
Announce an amnesty for all illegals. If you self-report to INS in the next 60 days then you have a six-month grace period during which you can continue to work but make plans for an orderly and peaceful return to your homeland with ALL of your asset, including house and car and related belongings.
If you do not self-report and miss the window, then all your assets are subject to seizure to pay off back taxes plus a $10,000 fine for violating federal immigration law.
If you leave with your assets yet come back illegally (e.g., trying to game the amnesty), then you are immediately subject to all the forgiven taxes, plus the first $10K fine, plus an additional $50K fine. Detained in federal prison. Legal attempts will be made to recover your assets now in Mexico.
This would WORK. It's all about the money. Once they realize the gravy train is subject to legitimate loss, they will say Adios to their friends here and go home while the going is still good.
Silly Huntress. Don't you realize that immigration lawyers are free? The Federal Government supported Legal Services Corporation provides all the help that illegals need. Cost to you the taxpayer: $1 billion per year. And rest assured that all the attorneys working at LSC are far-left extreme liberals zealously dedicated to destroying the country that we know and love.
ACORN is already underwriting mortgages for illegals with taxpayer dollars, so why not?
See todays WSJ for confirmation:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112217/posts
Bank of Amigo as we like to say. The one here in Worcester Mass has mortgage rates listed on their board in Mexican.
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