i really think you need to take some time to learn about how taxes work.
I think I have a handle on it. Thanks anyway.
companies have to pay taxes from their profits. this is completely unrelated to the sales tax that state governments charges CONSUMERS for the purchase of goods and services. the reason the stores collect sales tax is because it would be completely unenforceable to require people to mail their receipts and a tax payment.
No argument here.
florida, for one, does not have a state income tax (as mentioned by several other people).
I didn't need them to tell me. I was a resident for 26 years.
so considering that i live around 5000 a year below the poverty line here, and almost anyone who works makes more than i do and thus spends more than i do, my measly 140 a month in non-income taxes is no doubt dwarfed by even the inputs of illegals. also note, i don't have car payments and i don't pay my own insurance.
Do you understand how most illegals live? They live with family members because they can't even get an apartment without a lease. You can't get a lease without a credit check. You can't get a credit check without social security number. You can't get a social security number without being a resident of the United States. Therefore, they live in communal homes and pay the legal person the share for money and living space. So I'm willing to bet that you, even on a meager income, pay more taxes than the average illegal alien.
they also say their cost associated with illegals is between $148-$188 million. of course, they include citizen children of undocumented workers, as though somehow these children are less deserving of their american birthright than the children of "real americans" like good, white, baptist, americans from alabama.
A "real" American is anyone born in the United States or has been naturalized, legally, by the United States immigration and naturalization service. There is a "birthright." Every country has a birthright, because they are obligated to take care of their residents.
the center for immigration studies says that the illegals would actually cost twice as much or more if they were legal. how funny is that?
Exactly. Because they'd be paying what any average citizen has to pay by law. Your reply sounds as if you favor illegal immigration, but in other replies you seem to see some downsides to it. What are the dangers of a free border in your mind? Because if you don't see taxes as a problem, and you don't see them taking jobs away from Americans, then what reason would you have to oppose it?
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