Do Illegal aliens,  pay taxes?
410352
i'm with you man, plus they do pay taxes when they buy stuff. \nin my opinion it's just wrong to tell people they have to stay in a situation that they themslves feel is hurting them. you can't help where you are born, but you can do what ever it takes to improve your own life, and the lives of those you love. i think people don't ever try and put themselves in their shoes, to imagine what it would be like to be a poor sugar cane farmer looking for a better life, and being denied a any legal chance to change things.  of coarse we have to have rules and procedure, but we should be more leanient and compassionate to the situations of all the worlds people.
551316
Well, let's see.  They work productively for pay.  They buy stuff.  They pay rent.  They pay taxes.  \n\nWait, you say, they don't pay taxes, right?  Well, they pay every bit of sales tax that you or I do, regardless.  But in many cases, they also end up paying income tax, often more than we do.  Withholding catches them, and they can't file to get the tax refunds that are often due them, so they end up leaving it in the government coffers.\n\nThe only things they can't do effectively is buy homes and build businesses.  This is why we need to find a way to make them legal.  I don't suggest amnesty...it will just encourage more illegal behavior in the future.  You can't reward people for breaking the law.  But the simplistic idea of just sending them all home is not only impractical logistically, but harmful economically.\n\nIt is important that we find a way to increase LEGAL immigration to replace the illegals we send back.  It's not like we have a massive job shortage in this country.  If we don't have people willing to work, lots of businesses will not be able to function competitively, and THEN we'll see a weaker economy.
645757
As far as taxes, it mostly depends on the employer.  Obviously, most employers retain payroll taxes and send them directly to the government.  The only difference in using a fake SS number is that the worker will never get to claim the social security benefits that he paid.  And someone who doesn't file a tax return simply won't get his refund.  Sen. McCain on the Senate floor today (5/18/06) estimated that illegal workers pay about $8 billion/year in taxes.\n\nAs far as "under the table" jobs where the employer doesn't do payroll taxes properly, Americans who do those jobs also tend not to pay taxes on the money either.  So it's more about the employers and the jobs than about immigrants.
150447
They are not required to pay, but they must file. From what I have seen, somehow they usually end up getting money back.
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Thanks for asking this! You bring up the real issue, the real crisis surrounding millions of illegal aliens living in the USA. Fact is they do NOT contribute to our economy because they don't pay taxes. To make matters worse, they send quite a bit of the tax free money they make back to Mexico. Then to make matters really worse they use our hospitals for medical care because, that's right, in the ER no doctor will (or should) refuse to provide medical care based on the ability to pay. Hospital's are not allowed to ask whether you are legal or illegal. Going to the ER for anything is very expensive but since illegal aliens don't have insurance or a social security card or any form of ID that identifies them as a citizen of this country, they can't go see a regular family physician. Guess who pays the hospital bill?????? You guessed it! All of us taxpaying suckers. Don't even get me started on food stamps. Oh yeah, didn't you hear that some illegal aliens are getting food stamps. Did you also hear that some are getting housing assistance???? Did you know it is now considered taboo to ask about residency status??? How about our prisons? Do you have any idea how many illegal aliens are sitting in our prisons receiving medical care, 3 meals a day, clothing and clean sheets???? Yeah, we also pay for that. Oh and wait!!! don't forget the education of their children in our public schools. Who pays for that???? Oh yeah, that's right, the taxpayers. \n\nYou are absolutely right!!! This is not about race!!!! There is a far greater crisis at hand. There is no way the amount illegal aliens contribute by working (tax free) can even begin to scratch the surface of what they take from our economy. This is criminal! This is illegal! If they are illegal send them home!\n\nPlease teach us a lesson! Go home, we will learn how to pick our own vegetables and do our own laundry!
984448
Too bad he's not an "illegal alien."  The plan is to give them an opportunity to pay two of the past five years' taxes, plus a small fine, and to call it even!  Great country!
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Anyone who works in the united states is required to pay income tax.\nPeople who do not have social security numbers obtain an ITIN individual tax identification number in order to file tax returns.\nFor example an illegal immigrant who makes up a social security number goes to work, the employer deducts all applicable taxes and at the end of the year provides worker with a W-2, the worker goes to a tax preparer and legally obtains an ITIN and legally files taxes, however they are not eligible for Medicare so the US gov't stays with that money.\nPart 2\nthere are tax laws for taking or bringing too much money, not income tax another tax.
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Yep. We have similar problems up in Canada with another ethnic group. We welcome immigrants, if its legal. Otherwise they live for years absorbing money without paying taxes, and sending a good portion of this money back to their home countries, where it is no longer is able to add to the nations economy.\n\nBTW-illsuitedwan... what's your definition of illegal???Illegals do NOT pay taxes, they are paid under the table (illegally) to avoid getting caught.As soon as the IRS recieves tax information on an illegal, the department of immigration is notified and deportation process begins.  Unless unemployment in the US (and Canada for that matter) is at zero percent which it has never been.  then there are 'legal' citizens who need the work, and would pay taxes. Employers get away with hiring illegals and paying them far less than the minimum wage (because they're illegal), automatically putting these people below the poverty line. So how is this helping them?
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If in the U.S.--- Pay Taxes!\n\n-EA
1141328
Yeah, we all support them with the money we are forced by taxation to pay to meet their needs while they live tax free. And no, I don't want to support them because it lessen the amount of cash I have to support myself. What part of illegal doesn't our government understand? They need to be arrested, prosecuted and then ship them home pronto! Otherwise every American person arrested for an 'illegal' act should sue for wrongful detainment/discrimination.
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Many legals from vietnam and other Asian countries got a 5 year free ride on taxes.\n\nIllegals don't pay taxes because they get paid under the table.
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Illegal aliens can get welfare by applying for welfare with false/stolen id. Another way is if they have children who are US citizens, they can get welfare through them.\n\nAs a taxpayer, you pay taxes for things such as hospitals and schools. The taxes you pay should be used for healthcare and education of US citizens. Not of illegal aliens. But since hospitals are not allowed to refuse people emergency care and no one checks legal status when kids enroll in school, we have to pay for it.
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What are you talking about?  Do you mean taxes, as when they purchase something?  What "taxes" are they paying?  Do they report ALL their income to the IRS?
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ILLEGALS PAY TAXES and this is why there are so many.  It is impossible to become legal....it is called oppression in my book.  To become legal at least for the Mexicans.....They have to apply and wait at least 15 years for a denial or acceptance.  Lets use an analogy..  My child graduated high school at 18 years old....then has to wait 15 years to be gainfully employed....that means he will be 33 years old before he is able to become employed....what sense does that make....in the meantime what does he do to support himself?  Here are my thoughts on why this situation is as it is and will continue to stay as so:\n\nI don't wish to offend you but I do wish to inform you..... There is no TAX Free money in regards to the majority of the illegals.... unless they work in cash paying jobs ... like construction for example... Lots of people hide in the construction business for that very reason..... illegals are just working in construction. We have American dead beat dads who work in it too so they get easy money under the table as we call it so as not to pay child support. Most industries pay with payroll checks. If an illegal works in an industry that does pay with payroll checks then the appropriate federal and state taxes are removed. I recently did a spot check on payroll checks from the main industry in my town from 4 different illegal pay stubs..... 2 from poultry and 2 from restaurants. I did an estimate based on those 4 pay stubs in regards to the shifts worked at each one of those industries. I had an estimate of State taxes paid in to my state of $64,000.00. I did not figure up the Federal Taxes but you best believe that they have been raking it in also. Please keep in mind that the county that I live in is not ranked among the largest in my state. I would love to be able to do a State wide survey, but the problem is getting people to trust you not to use their information against them. You may be surprised to also be informed that at least 2 of these people had health insurance for which they paid for & utilized, they also had an additional voluntary $5.00 taken out each week as a donation for United Way Fund. I did no guesstimates on those donations, but just these 2 people alone donate a solid figure of $520.00 @ year which has to be noted as community service. IT WAS A REAL EYE OPENER TO ME. Please understand that the illegal does not file federal income taxes.... he does fall in a low income category and would be eligible to receive most of his tax money paid in as refunds... now do you really think that our government wants to make them legal so they have to give that money back ..... NO, of course not. The fence is going to be a joke. Who cares build the fence. The American public has clamored that they wish for this atrocity to be built. Then once all those billions of dollars are sunk into the building of this shameful wall......there will be no money for mass deportations...You seed this is why the government is building this wall... We all know that it will not serve the purpose for which it is built....They didn't even build a levy that could protect New Orleans..... the illegals crossing are just as unpredictable.....Build the fence so they will be able to say later well we don't have the money now for deportations.......Also you will see discounts on ladders on the other side of the border. You just need a ladder to safely scale the wall without a scratch. .THE POLITICIANS DO NOT WANT TO SEND THE ILLEGAL BACK
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Heck yeah they should!  Not only do most not have to, but they also get money from the government.  I live by several reservations and some of the stuff that goes on with them irritates the heck out of me.  I can see how what happened to the indians in the past was wrong, but it wasn't me who did it and it wasn't the ones alive today or even their parents who it happened to, so why should I have to pay them (through my taxes)?  It sucks!
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I am fed up with illegal Mexicans up to my eyeballs.  They rip off the public school system without paying and you cannot tell me that when they work for cash  with no SSN at the end of the day they are going to ever bother filing a tax return.\n\nThe great irony here is that if these stupid idiots became legal and filed a legitimate tax return, if they had a fairly large family (3 kids or so) they could not only still pay no taxes but get a windfall payment for earned income and child tax credits for as much as $3,000 - $4,000 a year.  So the dumb suckers are screwing themselves, mainly, which is fine with me.  If a million illegals got $3,000 each at tax time that would be an additional $3 BILLION from the pockets of other taxpayers.\n\n\nWoop de doo.  Send em back anyway, we don't need em; they are parasites in the system.
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For all you ignorant people sayin that illegal immigrants dont pay taxes and all.. let me tell you something... they do pay taxes! whenever they go to the store, when they get their paycheck they get a tax cut too and they do support the US ecconomy and they do all the dirty work that all you lazy but  wont do!!!\nthey are not criminals they should not be treated like that\nthey are just people tryin to make a better living tryin to provide their families with a better future!!! is that illegal?   that goes to all you ignorant people!!!