{"id":446,"date":"2006-12-19T23:48:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T03:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2006-12-19T23:48:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T03:48:44","slug":"deep-thinking-from-cherokee-cproperty-owner-and-business-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/deep-thinking-from-cherokee-cproperty-owner-and-business-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-thinking from Cherokee “property owner, and business owner”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guy needs some letters in reply. If you have time, here is the address:<\/a>
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\nHeard enough about illegal immigrant issue<\/strong>
\nWritten by Charles Goodaker<\/p>\n

Dear editor, Okay, I\u2019ve heard enough about the illegal issue. I can\u2019t believe the ignorance, naivety, and hypocrisy of so many people on this issue. Many people argue that the \u201cillegals\u201d are a burden, they don\u2019t pay taxes, they are \u201ccriminals\u201d, and many other slanderous and borderline racist comments. I want to take a few minutes of your time and ask you to think about a couple of things.<\/p>\n

First, what if you or your family lived in a part of this world that was so poor that you could only eat rice and beans for your meals? What if your insect ridden home, if you had one, consisted of four dilapidated walls, a warped worn out floor, a leaky roof, and no HVAC? What if the water you drank was so contaminated that you had to endanger your life just to quench your thirst? What if, when you could actually find some work, you had to work 12 hours a day doing back-breaking manual labor and your pay was merely $10 per day? What if, when you or your children were sick, you had to \u201ctough it out\u201d because you could not afford medicine? What would you do??? What would you risk to have a better life?<\/p>\n

Second, the issue about \u201cillegals\u201d coming to the United States so they can live tax free is just ludicrous. They are trying to survive, not get out of paying taxes. Furthermore, THEY DO PAY TAXES!! Let\u2019s take for example a legal person who makes $8.60 per hour and about $330 per week. Out of her paycheck she pays $11 in federal income withholding, $12 to the state, and about $25 to Social Security and Medicare. This leaves her with about $282 dollars to buy food and pay bills. Most of what she spends will again be taxed via a sales tax. At the 2% to 6% tax rate, she\u2019ll pay about $11 in sales taxes. This gives us a grand total of about $60 per week in taxes. However, because she is a citizen, makes very little money, and has a family, she\u2019ll get most of her federal and state income taxes refunded. So let\u2019s say in the end she actually contributes $3 to the feds, $3 to the state, $25 in SS\/ MC, and $11 in sales taxes. Her new total is $42 per week.<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s look at a typical illegal alien. They generally make less because they are often paid in cash. Let\u2019s assume that person makes $7 per hour or $266 per week. They still have to have food, shelter and pay bills. That person first pays rent because they can\u2019t own a home. And, although our other person may also pay rent, the illegal person pays rent in an otherwise empty space or undeveloped piece of property resulting in additional property tax revenue and heavily taxed rental income to the landlord. Let\u2019s say that the rent generates $100 per month in taxable income to the landlord. This would result in tax revenue of about $30 per month ($7.50 per week). That same illegal alien also pays sales taxes on everything they buy. Using the $11 per week sales tax number, that person\u2019s overall contribution to the tax revenue system is about $18.50 per week.<\/p>\n

You might be tempted to say AH HA!! The illegal person pays $23.50 less than the citizen ($42-$18.50). But, the illegal person doesn\u2019t pay into Social Security\/ Medicare, and rightfully so, as they are not entitled to that money and wouldn\u2019t be using it. So, if they aren\u2019t entitled to the benefits of Social Security\/ Medicare then it\u2019s not correct to use that figure for comparison. This leaves a shocking truth. The illegal is paying at the minimum an equal share of taxes, but possibly more. Many illegal people use counterfeit Social Security cards and tax IDs just to get jobs (Criminal, yes, but again, it\u2019s survival). This results in huge 100% profitable tax revenues to both the state and the federal government. Why, because they are paying into the Social Security\/Medicare and income tax systems with a fake number. This means no Social Security\/ Medicare withdrawals and no tax refunds because no tax return gets filed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It goes on here<\/a>…[really]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy needs some letters in reply. If you have time, here is the address: Heard enough about illegal immigrant issue Written by Charles Goodaker Dear editor, Okay, I\u2019ve heard enough about the illegal issue. I can\u2019t believe the ignorance, naivety, and hypocrisy of so many people on this issue. Many people argue that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}