Reply #72: May I address your concerns?

[Robson]

May I address your concerns and issues?

Only the illegals that are paying payroll tax under false SSNs are known. It's impossible to know how many are in the country, let alone how many don't pay any taxes. How do you prove a negative? I would assume that the numbers estimated in the country are vastly underestimated as that's the politically expedient way that Bush's corrupt government would play it. I would think 30-40 million illegals wouldn't be out of line, and many are European and Asian and not Hispanic.

Many illegals do not pay any taxes (income or payroll) and of course neither do their employers. But we citizens with our ever declining inflation adjusted income MUST pay more taxes to cover all their social costs (education, healthcare,etc)

When it comes to enforcement I wouldn't go after the illegals. But I'd make a coordinated sweep of every state in the country and every owner/CEO of a business that is found to employ illegals as more than 1% of their workforce would face felony charges and jail time. I'd use those KBR detention centers for the employers. Employment opportunities for illegals would dry up immediately.

I would guarantee that this is what would follow:
1/ the US stock market would fall temporarily
2/ many businesses would immediately offer higher wages to get US or legally eligible workers
3/ Wal-Mart would immediately offer healthcare and higher wages to every employee in order to keep workers
4/ many illegals would immediately return to their home countries and start political changes that would force leaders in Mexico and other countries to improve the system and opportunities there to avoid civil unrest.
5/ after a period of adjustment the USA could open doors to legal immigration if true labor shortages existed
6/ labor shortages would spur innovation for automated systems that would reduce the need for manual labor
7/ the USA working class would finally start to make economic headway and the country would be better able to help other countries economically