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To: Les H who wrote (75182)3/4/2001 12:10:14 PM
From: portage  Read Replies (3) of 436258
 
Les, renters don't contribute to local property tax ? Who are you kidding ? The landlords pass it through to renters and then some. There's also little denying that the lower cost of those fancy meals, well clipped lawns, weekly house cleanings, and cost of food in the grocery store have reduced the inflationary impact of these services due to the cheaper labor from the immigrant supply. I see a lot of the young adult immigrants who didn't go through our primary school system going to night school around here after a day of serious physical work, trying to better their lot by taking English and other classes that will help them get by.

These guys work hard, they don't sit around like us and post messages on the internet all day. They sure don't earn what they deserve in many cases. Ever tried a day of backbreaking work in the hot Central Valley sun ? How about a month or a year or two of it ? The more egregious problem was the families who brought in their elderly parents and put them on assistance, after they had agreed to support them if they came over, because they were too old to work.

That said, I won't argue that immigration policies aren't a difficult problem, and limits are definitely needed -- but in California it's agribusiness and other employers who push the hardest to lay off it. Maybe we should get them to contribute more to our educational system. On the other hand, I fully expect a return to the racist fearmongering that Pete Wilson perfected here during the last recession, when the next downturn hits.
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