A lot of people think conservatives "hate Mexicans" -- which is stupid. They have no problems with Latinos; they have a problem with people illegally entering the country.
I like the fact that the Left keeps using "illegal immigrant", "Mexican", "Latino", and "Hispanic" interchangeably.
I've heard the argument, "they pay sales tax," that people on the left like to throw out. It'a stupid, because sales tax is such a minuscule amount compared to what everyone pays from their checks; plus their own sales tax on top.
That's one of their lesser arguments. The better one is the fact that, yeah, some aliens do in fact pay federal income tax in the form of filing a 1040-NR (Non-Resident), but here's the thing: How can everybody be telling the truth? You mean to tell me that this guy's employers are filling out W-2's for illegal immigrants, as well as making sure to identify withholding and payroll tax for their illegal labor?
This is why that argument is bullshit, and it's actually really bad for the immigrants themselves. The illegals are basically trying to fill out taxes based on whatever the company is telling them. There's no way that the company is going to admit on it's tax documents that it's hiring illegal labor. They might construct totally bullshit numbers for withholding and be pocketing a portion of that by saying that the migrant earned less money than they actually gave them. They're not going to pay full-scale payroll tax, or have full withholding on employees that they don't even have to legally vet.
Even if the illegal is crazy enough to honestly pay the total amount of taxes he truly owes, his employer's documents will be bullshit, and he'll go to jail for filing false documents with the feds. The whole thing is a giant tax fraud, mostly by the corporations, even if the illegal is filing a 1040-NR.
I like the fact that the Left keeps using "illegal immigrant", "Mexican", "Latino", and "Hispanic" interchangeably.
That's one of their lesser arguments. The better one is the fact that, yeah, some aliens do in fact pay federal income tax in the form of filing a 1040-NR (Non-Resident), but here's the thing: How can everybody be telling the truth? You mean to tell me that this guy's employers are filling out W-2's for illegal immigrants, as well as making sure to identify withholding and payroll tax for their illegal labor?
This is why that argument is bullshit, and it's actually really bad for the immigrants themselves. The illegals are basically trying to fill out taxes based on whatever the company is telling them. There's no way that the company is going to admit on it's tax documents that it's hiring illegal labor. They might construct totally bullshit numbers for withholding and be pocketing a portion of that by saying that the migrant earned less money than they actually gave them. They're not going to pay full-scale payroll tax, or have full withholding on employees that they don't even have to legally vet.
Even if the illegal is crazy enough to honestly pay the total amount of taxes he truly owes, his employer's documents will be bullshit, and he'll go to jail for filing false documents with the feds. The whole thing is a giant tax fraud, mostly by the corporations, even if the illegal is filing a 1040-NR.