[At _War_With_Liberals]

You and Bob Grant in NY. Everything Grant has said for the past 30 years is coming true.

I, on the other hand, have only realized the depth of the mess we are in last year, when I had time off and thought about it.

As far as workers/jobs'companies goes... it is just a LITTLE frustrating that some of us pay taxes fully, hire all legal employees who pay income tax, etc... while watching construction companies, farmers, landscapers, restaurants hire cheap labor, pay no benefits, evade taxes, declare 20% of their true income, and employ people off the books.

We get harassed several times a year by the IRS, spend 10's of 1000's more for accounting and taxes... while rests, builders, landscaping co's et al run wild, break laws, hide income, evade taxes, defraud the govt in every way possible, ETC, ETC ETC

And Bush's summation to this gargantuan injustice is the insulting "workers need jobs and jobs need workers" con game.

No one ever talks about these issues here. People who own and have started cash businesses in the past 5 years are getting cash rich by operating outside of the law. Everyone else in the middle class is doing the right thing, at their economic peril. Plus, they are paying for the benefits to illegal employees of the companies that hire illegals.

Every time I get mail from the IRS, I think "Why are they hassling taxpaying citizens, while giving law breakers and tax cheats a pass?"

[dennisw]

No one ever talks about these issues here. People who own and have started cash businesses in the past 5 years are getting cash rich by operating outside of the law.

Good post there and please note that recent immigrants and illegal immigrants gravitate to cash businesses. They positively love to be a cash business. Put simply, recent arrivals are cheating on their taxes like crazy. More so than the native born. Businesses that deal in cash (not all cash necessarily) such as restaurants, pushcarts, taxi and limo companies, newsstands, convenience stores. Cash businesses by definition are invitations to tax evasion.