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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (483648)5/27/2009 2:47:49 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 1574049
 
Unless they are paid in cash, they pay income tax. And sales tax. And SS they may never collect.

Illegal Immigrants are Paying a Lot More Taxes Than You Think
Eight million illegals pay Social Security, Medicare, and income taxes

Shikha Dalmia
May 1, 2006

Denying public services to people who pay their taxes is an affront to America's bedrock belief in fairness. But many "pull-up-the-drawbridge" politicians want to do just that when it comes to illegal immigrants.

The fact that illegal immigrants pay taxes at all will come as news to many Americans. A stunning two-thirds of illegal immigrants pay Medicare, Social Security and personal income taxes. Yet, nativists like Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., have popularized the notion that illegal aliens are a colossal drain on the nation's hospitals, schools and welfare programs — consuming services that they don't pay for
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