Why do people think that immigrants dont pay taxes!!??
349774
sales tax is not the same as income taxes
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Illegal immigrants do not pay taxes!  Most work for cash under the table but those that do get a check and USE a social security number fill out their W-2s with so many dependents(whether they exist or not) that very little or no taxes are taken out of their checks.
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yeah they have to break laws out of neccesity. have you ever been sick and not had health care? have you ever had to get to work with out a drivers lic.? yeah thats what i thought!!!! immigrants are just tryin to make a livin, you know they like to eat too! Not just americans! Oh and immigrants do pay taxes, so if they are puttin money into the system i think its fair they get health care! SERIOUSLY THERE ARE SOME IGNORANT PEOPLE OUT HERE!!! WHY DON'T SOME OF YOU THAT THINK ITS NOT FAIR THEY GET THE SAME BENEFITS GO OUT AND WORK MINUMUM WAGE JOBS, FOR LONG HOURS!!! THEN YOU CAN TELL ME IF ITS OK THAT THEY GET ALL THE HELP THEY NEED!!!!!
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Because its against the law.  They don't pay taxes and end up getting free social services without any reproductions to them and it puts a strain on America.  It's not fair for non-illegal immigrants that nothing happens to illegal ones, they worked hard to get to this country legally so its just not fair that illegals can have the same thing they do.
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Only the illegal ones don't have to pay taxes.  They also get free medical care and if they claim to be over 65, they also get free social security checks.  Since they are undocumented and there is no way to prove they aren't 65, I suspect that most of them will be collecting it.
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The government says that millions are lost each year  because of illegal immigrants but what they avoid mentioning is the fact that those same illegal immigrants that are costing the government money are in reality doubling that money back for the government. Illegals do not file income tax returns so all the money that they have paid in taxes stays with the government. Put it this way our government keeps a half open door at the border to allow the strongest to cross so they can work but tell the people that they are doing everything they can to seal up the border. I live not even 3 minutes from the border and have many friends who are immigration officers. Everything is a business including drug smugglers, as long as the big guys in office see a profit anything goes. They just don't tell anyone about it ..
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I think your question is really a disguised form of polemic. I see what you're trying to say here, but you miss the point entirely. The argument that has been made by many illegal immigrants is that because they pay taxes "like everybody else" they should be entitled to the same rights, like everybody else. I take issue with the contention that they do pay taxes like everyone else, and I also disagree with any argument that attempts to connect illegal citizenship with a sort of moral/ethical argument that supposedly supercedes a nation's legal authority. For one, illegal immigrants do not always pay their taxes (often a reason why they are hired in the first place is because they do not have any documentation and their work is paid in cash, under the table, so that no one pays any taxes on it). Furthermore, some studies have estimated that illegal immigrants actually receive much more income in the form of government support than they actually contribute (i.e. they are net tax loss for the government). As far as your moral implied argument that illegal immigrants- by virtue of their tax "contributions"- are owed something by the US government, I ask you the following: imagine that you move to any other country other than the United States- say Venezuela, or China, or Germany- and using the same illicit means, you find a job in these countries and then make a claim that these countries somehow "owe" you something. Hard to imagine? Why in the world is breaking American laws any more moral or ethical than breaking the laws in any other country around the world? The entire idea of sovereignty is that a country has a right- and a duty- to protect its citizens and to maintain its territorial integrity- including its borders. That duty and responsibility far outweighs any supposed duty to protect citizens from other countries.
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PANCHA - Que?  No Drain?  Es Su Loco??  These illegals do not pay taxes, yet they take free services such as indigent care from the hospitals, etc....THAT IS WHAT IS CALLED A DRAIN.\n\nThey also take money they earn and send it to mexico.....THAT IS A DRAIN!  \n\nWhy not think with your head instead of your heart.
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They do take jobs.  They work for less than the govt requires be paid to legals - construction right now is the worst.\n\nThe reason we worry about it so much is because almost all of the illegals are then using govt assistance, and since they are paid under the table or do not have to pay taxes.  We end up paying for them to be illegal.\n\nI worry about whether I can give my family everything I want to (and work hard to be able to) and my taxes keep going up because of the illegals.\n\nAND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW MANY OF THEM THEN BREAK OUR LAWS and end up in prison where I am AGAIN paying for them...\n\nWhy do you care what we worry about?  If you too are American and do not worry about it, then I suggest you write your congressman/woman and suggest that people who are in favor of illegals can pay into a fund with their earned money so the rest of us no longer have to.\n\n<< go to any govt care facility in CA - they are NOT ALLOWED TO TURN ANYONE away, SS# or NOT - they cannot even ask for immigration status! - be sure you have all your facts for EVERY state before you say something is stupid.>>
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Aren´t taxes deducted from ppls pay checks???If so that means they also pay taxes,,,
654702
i don't care what anybody f**kin says. i work just as hard as those damn mexicans. i work for very little money. i do not collect welfare and i do pay TAXES. my taxes go up every year to pay for those f**kin illegal immigrants and i am sick of it. you people that want them here should pay for them and leave my money alone so i can raise my family(no welfare did not pay for me to have my children... my husband and i did.) you can pay for their medical benefits and their 100's of children. i say we need to tie a cinder block around their ankles and throw them back into the water that they swam across to get here ILLEGALLY. they can work for alot less than i can because they do not have to pay taxes or pay for their food and medical expenses. i am paying for them. i say get the f**k out.
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ilegal imigrants PAY 99 % OF EVERY TAX THERE IS and get nothing back come tax time, all that money from every single check they took from them.. GONE. \nall they get back is a bunch of racist people calling them names, because they work their asses off to feed their families, and risk alot in doing so, including being killed by armed civillians,militia style.\nso much for the land of the free.\nimmigrants do hundreds of jobs that the average american take for granted, if they didnt, your life as it is would change drastically.
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I AGREE TOTALLY AND COMPLETLY!!!!\nLOOK AT ALL THE ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN PEOPLE\nWE PAY TAXES SO THAT THEY CAN OPEN UP THEIR BUISNESSES\nDRIVE MERCEDES AND PUT THEIR KIDS IN COLLEGE.\nI SAY BULLSHIT \nLATINO-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COME HERE TO WORK \nYEAH SO WHAT THEY MAY GET MEDICAL THAT IS OUR PEOPLE AND THEY SHOULD GET MEDICAL AND WIC THATS WHY WE PAY TAXES\nTHEY SHOULD LET US DECIDE WHERE OUR TAX MONEY SHOULD GO TO \nTHE MIDDLE EASTERN TERRORISTS,ASIAN LEECHES OR LATINOS\nBEING THAT WE ARE THE MAJORITY IN MOST STATES THE LATINOS WOULD GET THE MOST !!! I WAS BORN HERE IM PUERTO RICAN AND CUBAN AND I STAND WITH MY PEOPLE WHETHER THEY BE MEXICAN SALVORDOREAN ECT,ECT VIVA LA RAZA
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people are ignorant so they shouldn't talk. Seriously, I get what your saying, we are just here to earn a living like everybody else but people are ignoring the facts. \n\n\np.s when immigrants go to a grocery store, they don't say "oh I'm an immigrant so I don't have to pay taxes"
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What exactly is "handed off" to illegal immigrants?\nThe general assumption that illegal immigrants are here to take what's rightfully yours is as racist as it is ignorant.\nImmigrants (legal or not) come here looking for better opportunities and quality of life.\nIllegal immigrants are faced with hardships you couldn't understand unless you became one.  They are forced to work two and three different jobs making less than minimum wage and are taken advantage of because of their legal status.\nWhat's ironic is that they pay taxes just like you and me.\nSo... they work harder for less money and on top of that pay taxes that pay the salaries of those politicians so thirsty to kick them out of the country.\n\nGoing back to the original question; those that don't want illegal mexicans in this country are not racists.  They just find it hypocritical that a group of people braking the law (a federal one at that) are protected by some politicians just to gain popular acceptance.\n\nTo those of you that share the asker's opinion that illegal immigrants are a threat to "this country and its economy and security", I ask - how has illegal immigration affected you directly?  Did anybody get your dream job because they would do it for less money?  Did anybody get the low rent apartment you wanted?\n\n\n******  stoop_fer_lyfe ******\nI DO KNOW what I'm talking about.  I also live in a community riddled with illegal immigrants and am very close to many of them.\nWhat you fail to understand is that they buy new cars, buy houses or apartments and have credit cards - all things that need a credit report.  Banks have changed credit requirements to accommodate them because financial institutions are not immigration officers, they are in business to make money and are not braking any law by lending money to someone that can provide Income Tax Returns.  It may also be hard for you to believe that the government - regardless of the red flags it raises - accepts those Tax Returns and turns a blind eye to the migration legality of the issuer; again, the IRS is not responsible for policing immigration laws.\nMaybe you have never filed a tax return, but you don't need an employer to report and pay taxes for you.  You are then 'Self-Employed', and you don't necessarily need to report all your income since it can't be proved.\nIllegal immigrants know they can live very 'normal' lives as long as they don't break any laws other than immigration laws.\nIt seems to me you are the one that DOES NOT KNOW what you are talking about and are merely commenting on what is fed to you by alarmist media.\n\n**************\n\nI actually enjoy these friendly exchanges.\nI realized why we are talking about two different illegal immigrants.  You are talking about those that cross over illegally (sneak in the country) and I'm talking about those that came here on a visa (any kind) and overstayed.\nThe Social Security Administration used to provide SSN cards/numbers to people on temporary visas; they were stamped with a big 'Not for employment use'.  I don't have to tell you how easy those cards were to duplicate.  I even saw a used car salesman photocopy one, remove those words and photocopy again until he ended with a 'clean' copy before submitting the loan.\nOn the subject of taxes... during my college years I worked as a computer consultant, doing odd jobs that payed under $550 at a time, that way my 'employer' did not have to submit a 1099 for professional services.  I stayed under the radar and expensed every pencil, calculator, computer part, tool, etc. that I bought during those years.  Completely legal.\n\n**************\nDude... you had me at Hello.\nWell said.  I actually liked your latest update better; it didn't show a lingering anger.\nIn the words of Judge Chamberlain Haller (the late Fred Gwynne) in My Cousin Vinny; “that is a lucid, intelligent,
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try working and not paying your taxes for a few yrs .. see how politicaly correct you get treated... that "survivor dude, richard hatch just got 4 years in prison for not claiming his prizs money..  why dont the illegals have to go to jail for not paying their taxes???!?!?!? they must be sent home at all costs nothing less is acceptable... and ps they ARE  taking work away from americans... i see it more and more every day... stop using companies that hire illegals.. if your not part of the solution you are part of the problem!
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Where I live, there is a HUGE Hispanic population.  All, if not 99% of the illegals here DO pay income taxes.  Most of them work under false SS#'s.  So...they DO pay in but cannot collect income tax refunds.  If people in America would educate themselves I wonder if anyone would be complaining.  In my personal experience the only people I have known of in my life that have worked under-the-table have been White and it was t either avoid income tax or to screw unemployment.  This immigration debate is fueled by ignorance.  The focus is on "those Mexicans" instead of on improving the LEGAL immigration process.  This isn't 70 years ago when my Grandparents got off their boat from Portugal, waited in line, told someone their name and YAY! We're Legal!!