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Originally Posted by Hugh R
Why would calling your 1980 Porsche SC 911 have solved the problem? I certainly wouldn't have endangered my 911 Targa over that. Seriously though, my daughter's Godfather is hispanic, (and they say I'm a racist) the type that speaks Spanglish with his brothers and sisters and Spanish with his mom and dad, and he says its cause of their work ethic. Which I agree, they work hard. My problem with the illegals is that they take more in social services than they could ever imagine paying back in. Then again, I contend that the "average" american doesn't pay his "fair share" of taxes anyway, but that's for another thread.
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I agree with the fact that most of us don't pay our fair shair (i.e. grade school alone probably costs more than most parents pay in taxes for example). With the illegal worker, they are "low cost" (to their employers) because you and I our our subsidizing their true cost. I'm not saying this is good our bad, just that it is. Because of the way things work in our society, this is pretty common for a lot of things.
- Houses: Non-home owning tax payers subsidize homeowners to the tune of the tax deduction home owners get.
- Trucking: I've heard that trucks "wear out" the roads more than the extra taxes they pay would compensate for. The consumer gets "cheap" lettuce from across the country but actually pays for it from his taxes.
- Pollution: In the old days, the manufacturer would save money at the expense of the "common wealth" and everyone else would pay to clean it up.
That latter case is a good example of how the government got in the act and made the polluters pay the true cost for producing their product. I suspect we are still paying for "cheap" products from 3rd world in the form of air and sea pollution.
-Chris