Thursday, April 14, 2011

O-Damn-a's Solution: Cut Spending, Raise Taxes

How fitting, this headline from the 14 April edition of the Jacksonville (NC) Daily News. The day before traditional Tax Day. The man's plan: for every three dollars in spending cuts, he'll add a buck in tax hikes. O-Damn-a is proposing 2-trillion dollars in spending cuts. That means taxpayers will have to pay an additional 665-billion (I said BILLION) bucks...1/3 of the cuts. For every man, woman and child in this country, if each of us paid our fair share of the proposed TAX INCREASE, that would come out to more than $2200 per person.

Of course, the majority of Americans never pay an equal share. Some pay absolutely nothing at all. 12-MILLION of these Americans are undocumented. In other words, they are illegal aliens. The income tax dollars the rest of us pay, the social security taxes we pay, are used to provide welfare benefits, medical care, even social security BENEFITS, for 12-MILLION illegals in this country.

The fair share is not fair, at all. The wealthy folks out there pay a larger percentage of the money they EARN than do the rest of us. Amazing how so many of us feel that the rich should be punished because they've worked hard for their money. The president's plan calls for tax increases to be paid by the richest Americans. Two percent of taxpayers would pay 100-percent of the tax increases. Fair? Hmmm.

Don't get me wrong. I believe that every family should pay it's share. A blanket amount, based on their income. No tax incentives, no loopholes, and NO BENEFITS for illegals who have decided to take advantage of our way of life.

An example of this. A building contractor hires a subcontractor to do work on a construction project. The contractor...he's the one with the license, the one who keeps the books...pays the subcontractor a flat fee for his services. The subcontractor pays his employees. In too many instances, it's in cash. Under the table. No records to keep. No taxes withheld. No social security benefits withheld. No insurance, no worker's compensation. No nothing. He pays cash. Every Friday. He does this because his employees are undocumented. That means they are in this country illegally. And, everyone looks the other way, because they work cheaper than U.S. workers. To add insult to injury, they are taking jobs that 10% of the workforce can't get.

Don't get me wrong. Not all subcontractors hire undocumented aliens. There are many, many who play by the rules.

I hear time and agin that the illegals will work cheaper, and do jobs that we won't do. The cheaper part is and isn't true. A U.S. citizen, making $10 per hour, doesn't get $10. Income taxes, state and federal, along with social security taxes (call it what you will...if it's taken from your income, and goes into the general fund, it's taxes), medicaid taxes, all come out of that ten bucks. On top of that, the employer must pay additional benefits out of his pocket. An illegal alien who earns $10, even $8, keeps the whole kit and kaboddle. And, the employer saves money. And, a lot of paperwork. I dare say that if unemployed U.S. citizens got to keep the same amount of money that illegals do, they'd jump at the chance to work.

The president's plan is to cut spending for non security discretionary funds by 770-BILLION bucks. Maybe he should order federal law enforcement agencies to start checking construction sites, working undercover, and take down sub contractors who employ illegals. The cost of the job might go up, but unemployment rates would drop, and the appeal for illegals to sneak across the border would not be nearly as appealing.

Or, maybe he should just pay companies, like the former Blackwater group, a bounty for each illegal alien they catch and  tattoo (for later identification purposes), and deliver to the border. I dare say they would be more efficient and definitely more effective than federal cops.

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