Posted on 01/08/2012 2:11:45 PM PST by La Enchiladita
SACRAMENTO -- The state of California targets an "underground economy." Agencies are going after businesses that pay employees in cash, avoiding workers compensation insurance and withholding taxes. The state's going high-tech to crack down on those employers.
The Contractors State License Board of California has videotaped numerous sting operations where they catch businesses operating without a license and hiring workers under the table -- meaning those businesses aren't paying payroll taxes, workers compensation insurance or contributing to unemployment benefits like legitimate businesses, and pocketing that money instead.
California's underground economy, which includes the landscaping, restaurant, farming and construction industries, is estimated to cost the state $7 billion per year in lost revenue.
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It's because they are run by a bunch of unscrupulous business owners who are more concerned with putting money in their pockets than being legitimate and above board.
Employers everywhere do that to avoid the workers comp insurance, avoid paying taxes and avoid paying normal legitimate wages.
Trust me, they love under the table, low wage illegal workers who think company benefits mean a 5 minute break.
Absolutely!
Corrupt employers are all over the landscape.
Then throw in the businesses owned by foreigners and it's totally out of control.
The “California Solution”.....Create a new Government bureaucracy....the "Malicious Under Ground General Enforcement Div.".... "MUGGED"... Hire $8 billion dollars worth of Public Employees to hunt down those underground law breakers!!...That should fix the problem!
Why would expect not to pay taxes? If ya had employees, why would they not be covered by workers comp?
Are you suggesting these guys who work full time performing landscaping services for clients, not pay like all other businesses are required to do?
The System
1. High tax/no border controls permits for free health care
2. Illegals enter California, respond to incentives, boost their high fertility by creating anchor babies
3. Employers detect rich supply of cheap labor, hire illegals, pricing real American out of jobs
4. Amnesty legalizes new cadre of Mexican voters —they reciprocate the Invasion Machine with reliable votes. One hand is now washing the other in self-sustaining, “Enrichment/Vote Vortex”.
5. Invasion Machine needs to sustain enrichment, but encounters a dilemma; it must permit employment of illegals, while punishing employment of illegals who minimize participation in social programs
6. Solution: punish businesses who employ illegals who don’t participate in social programs
This is the easiest way to a police state. High taxes and Byzantine regulations results in law breaking out of necessity or out of ignorance. More law enforcement are needed, businesses fail, government revenue falls, other businesses arise in the black market to meet demand and then more police are needed and the cycle repeats itself.
Eventually, everyone on all sides becomes accustomed to breaking the law, and we descend into the law of the jungle instead of the rule of law. Zero is the prime example of this decline.
low income tax and high sales tax is the answer...everybody spends thier money!!!
Underground economy in California...how about they step out of the front door.
Ya got millions out there working under the table for thousands of corrupt employers who are not paying withholding taxes, worker comp, etc., like legitimate businesses do..What do you suggest be done?
Going after these criminal employers should have been done 20 years ago.
First, they’re not going to crack down.
But second, if they did, a lawyer would simply have a judge shut it down for anti-Hispanic activity.
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Had the employers not been cheating, do you think ca would have enough money? BWAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Nj has a huge underground economy, and families really aren’t contibutors. Newark has some fine Iberian restaurants, but it seems there are a few Europeans that own/run them, and every other person there is a non-English speaking suspected alien from South America. Illegals in NJ are targeted by advertisers because they have more discretionary income than Americans burdened with taxes and residential occupancy codes.
they are bound and determined to shut down whatever remains of a functional economy in California....
one of many reasons the government sees the family as enemy..
Good luck finding the employee. He's probably an illegal. Since he gets paid in cash under the table, there was no need to give a social security number, address, or correct name.
If they can afford to conduct a legitimate business, they need to get the hell out out of business.
Yet they can afford to hire a bunch of low wage illegals who think a 5 minute break means company benefits, but can't afford withholding tax or workers comp?
Tell me, when the illegals sue these greedy chumps for serious injury, costing tens of thousands in medical costs, and it's discovered the POS greedy employer was fraudulently hiring illegals under the table illegals, ya think the AH employers can afford that?
You hire illegal aliens?
Wait, what, I thought all this time everyone knew that illegals pay taxes and that they are such a benefit because they bring in more money than they cost! I’m shocked! /sarc
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