[XBob]

the crash is coming - the system has about 5-10 more years before it crunches

[CO_dreamer]

Oh, good, just what we need. Yet another excuse for US employers to fire US employees and hire H1B visa workers.

[The Old Hoosier]

This is rich. Now employers will be falling all over themselves even more to import legal, cheap, skilled labor.

How about we just abolish the payroll tax on the rest of us as well?

[proxy_user]

So what happens if an H1B visa holder becomes a green card holder, and then a citizen? Many of them do. How could they pay this tax retroactively?

Maybe we can give them a choice: you don't have to pay the tax, but then you CANNOT become a permanent resident. I'll bet many of them would elect to pay.

[The Old Hoosier]

After the signing of the protocol it has to be ratified by the two countries before the two governments start negotiations on the final agreement.

Get on the phones to your senators, folks. They need 2/3 to ratify, right?

[ancient_geezer]

Solve the whole problem, H1b's don't pay the tax, neither should anyone else!!!

H.R.25
SPONSOR: Rep Linder, John (introduced 01/7/2003)
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
Refer: http://www.fairtax.org & http://www.salestax.org

Gets rid of the all income & payroll taxes and replaces them with a singe tax paid by everyone at the same rate, no witholding, no exceptions, no exemptions paid at the retail register and nowhere else.

Thomas Hobbes from Leviathan

• It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income

[Swanks]

I too am sorry I voted for this piece-of-s**t sellout GW Bush. As mush as I can't stand Dean or Kerry I am glad Bush will be a one termer like his loser father. There is NO WAY I will vote for this clueless Globalist in '04.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Thank you President Bush!