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To: Reaganwuzthebest
"while forcing the taxpayers to subsidize that labor."

More myths. Illegals aren't subsidized anymore than any other employees. The working class are all subsidized by the wealthy who pay the overwhelming majority of taxes.

The share each and every man woman and child of the federal budget alone in a little over $20,000 per year.

Illegal workers contribute $800 Billion to our GDP per year. The corporations and wealthy whose taxes make up for yours and mine wouldn't have that money to pay those taxes without the contribution of illegals.

Cities know what generates the wealth that pays the city taxes. That's why so many are "sanctuary" cities. You will never win by trying to claim that productive workers are an economic liability.

312 posted on 08/31/2005 7:20:21 PM PDT by bayourod (Blue collar foreign laborers create white collar jobs. Without laborers you don't need managers.)
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To: bayourod
The corporations and wealthy whose taxes make up for yours and mine wouldn't have that money to pay those taxes without the contribution of illegals.

The only contributions corporations are giving is to their stockholders thanks to higher profits from slave labor. And sanctuary policies have nothing to do with taxes, it's campaign money going to these politicians who want that slave labor.

Illegal workers contribute $800 Billion to our GDP per year.

Wow that's quite a statistic, you got a link to back that up?

322 posted on 08/31/2005 7:40:11 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: bayourod
More myths. Illegals aren't subsidized anymore than any other employees. The working class are all subsidized by the wealthy who pay the overwhelming majority of taxes.

No, not a myth. You just can't deal with the fact that your precious illegal alien buddies are ripping off Americans through subsidized taxpayer freebies.

Illegal workers contribute $800 Billion to our GDP per year.

Are you still accepting as fact the $800 Billion figure that was offered up by Raul Hinojosa, which Newsweek magazine describes this way:

"Hinojosa, a fast-talking, pony-tailed graduate of University of Chicago's PhD program, is cashing in on the boom in illegal immigration himself. His startup, No Borders Inc., pedals debit-like cards on which immigrants can store cash, send money home to Mexico, make phone calls, and join medical discount plans."

Cities know what generates the wealth that pays the city taxes. That's why so many are "sanctuary" cities. You will never win by trying to claim that productive workers are an economic liability.

This isn't a good argument for illegal alien labor. Whatever jobs illegal alien workers currently fill can be easily filled by legal immigrant workers and American workers, and these legal immigrant workers and American workers can be just as productive as illegal alien workers.

333 posted on 08/31/2005 8:05:34 PM PDT by judgeandjury
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To: bayourod
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"Illegals aren't subsidized any more than any other employees."


353 posted on 09/01/2005 1:10:06 AM PDT by judgeandjury
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