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Date Posted: 14:28:17 03/31/06 Fri
Author: 23
Subject: Re: Well, ain't it the truth...
In reply to: carson1 's message, "Well, ain't it the truth..." on 10:59:19 03/31/06 Fri

That's why I'm saying we should make them legal immigrants. Then they have to pay all the taxes the rest of us have to pay.

Those who aren't interested in becoming american citizens will have to go back home. Which sounds pretty daunting, but if we had a more thorough and secure system that didn't allow for hiring of illegals (unless they were currently going through the citizenship process), we wouldn't be such an attractive place to come to if they knew we wouldn't hire them. Sure, there are some employers who would skirt the law, but I don't think there would be very many who could successfully do so if there was a stricter set of rules to track who your employees are. In other words, if employers weren't able to designate those employees as "expenditures" on their own taxes, the benefits of hiring the low-wage illegal immigrants under the table would disappear.

I'm sure I'm ignorant of all kinds of tax rules and legalities, but it doesn't seem terribly complicated to me.

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[> Re: Well, ain't it the truth... -- chico781, 14:32:46 03/31/06 Fri [1]

That is completely true and I think that by legalizing them we'll reach that middle ground. What a lot of people are suggesting is to build an ugly fence across the border and to make it tougher for them to come in. Fine, go ahead and build a fence. I doubt it will work to be honest but that's another issue. What do you do about the ones already here? I think that's where legalizing them is the best solution. That's not to say that they should automatically be legalized. I think that first we should give them their work permits, which will allow the government to keep track of them and even tax them. Even that is only a part time solution, in my opinion. The real solution will be when all these countries where these people are comming from improve and make it better for their citizens to stay and work there. That, my friends is where the solution lies but no one is talking about that. Just build a fence, they say. That'll work.

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