Posted on 05/21/2013 11:05:44 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Senate immigration bill’s authors acknowledged Tuesday that their legislation does not require illegal immigrants to pay all back taxes, saying it would be too difficult to make them ante up everything they might owe.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat who is chief sponsor of the bill, said illegal immigrants by definition are living in the shadows, and requiring them to reconstruct their pay history could be tough — and potentially keep many of them from legalization.
“We all realize that the system is broken. We all realize that people did wrong things. And the goal is to set this right by letting those in the shadows come out,” Mr. Schumer said Tuesday as the Judiciary Committee plowed through more amendments to the 867-page immigration bill. “The worry I have here is that by being as rigid … as this amendment is, that it will delay and prevent many, many people from coming out of the shadows.”
The issue of back taxes is an emotionally charged part of the current immigration debate.
Mr. Schumer and the other members of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” who wrote the immigration bill have said the legislation requires illegal immigrants to pay “a fine and back taxes,” and that is true — up to a point.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
A few months ago I was posting that the GOP could craft an alternative bill that shows them as compassionate by giving a break to some of the illegals raised here as children to adults that :
1) Does not allow any government benefits
2) No citizenship
3) They are required to meet ALL obama-care mandates WITH THEIR OWN MONEY
4) They MUST PAY Federal INCOME taxes each year, no EITC
5) No crimes
6) They support all their dependents themselves
7) Graduated High school
And Dems WOULDNT touch it.
Alternatively above at link is a Dem/lib bill approved by Rubio, Mccain, Grahamnesty
” not only does Rush call Rubio a true conservative but I recently heard Levin call Rubio ‘My good friend’”
Never thought I would ever write Rush or Levin off, but I have done so.
Strange days indeed
Most peculiar, momma !
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” 1) Does not allow any government benefits
2) No citizenship
3) They are required to meet ALL obama-care mandates WITH THEIR OWN MONEY
4) They MUST PAY Federal INCOME taxes each year, no EITC
5) No crimes
6) They support all their dependents themselves
7) Graduated High school”
Uh huh......
R O T F L M A O ~!!
I have discovered that too. Not one of them I talk to gives a rip about being American. Go to a western union on Friday afternoon and see how much $$ is going south.
I demand not to have to pay taxes anymore.
A more accurate headline from the Times would have read:
Virtually no back taxes will be paid under amnesty for illegals bill. It's in the fine print.
“2) No citizenship”
If they are paying taxes as legal residents then they will become citizens.
“3) They are required to meet ALL obama-care mandates WITH THEIR OWN MONEY”
We don’t believe citizens should be paying for obamacare.
2+3 are garbage. The rest I agree with you.
If they are legalized then they aren’t ‘foreign invaders’.
Either deport them or legalize and let them stay as citizens.
Well stated. It is possible and it can be done if the political will exists. Sheriff Joe shows us how it’s done.
Excellent article and I agree that could be done again.
Not if the bills says they cant. Many immigrants never become US citizens.
They should HAVE meet the full Obama-care requirements without government aid JUST AS WE HAVE to, otherwise we are forced to pay for theirs too as we do now.(and their employers shouldnt get the subsidy either, that will give those who came here obeyed the laws a fair shot)
TThat is the REAL GARBAGE, ME BEING FORCED TO PAY THEIR MEDICAL BILLS
“Not if the bills says they cant. Many immigrants never become US citizens.”
The constitution doesn’t provide for legal residency and paying taxes without the option of citizenship. No taxation without representation - remember this? If they are paying taxes and they are legal residents of the United States - then they will have the option of becoming citizens.
In short - if you do not want them to become citizens at some point in time - they must be deported.
“They should HAVE meet the full Obama-care requirements”
Balderdash. They shouldn’t be the recipients of Obamacare, just like citizens shouldn’t be the recipients of Obamacare. Abolish Obamacare!
The system is broken when non-citizens have more rights and protections than law-abiding citizens.
-PJ
Who the hell needs this amnesty? These illegals will pay ZERO BACK TAXES! Lets get real here/ The Democrat strategy is to get 20 million of these critters legalized then never follow through on enforcement or taxes or anything that might impact illegal aliens. Just wait until they start bring in their families wives children illegally. They will be all set with their work legalization and will be welfare eligible too. Then they will smuggle in family members
Of course the courts will permit no equal-protection arguments in this particular matter.
Taxes? What taxes? Most of ‘em would probably qualify for Earned Income Tax Credits - which they CAN receive according to the obscene amnesty bill they are pushing in Congress.
Yep, and if this bill passes I don’t believe they’ll have to smuggle their relatives in, they can get them in legally.
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