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To: TimF who wrote (53507)	11/15/2006 1:19:20 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

If an employer is not collecting or paying taxes for its employees, independent of whether it provides health insurance, it is not contributing to the tax base. The government is nevertheless providing services to the employer's workers out of the monies collected in taxes. That's what I'm talking about. My assumption is that undocumented workers are being paid in cash or cash equivalents. If the payroll is handled properly vis a vis tax collection, that is a separate matter. My overall point is that encouragement of illegal aliens as part of the work force exacts a greater cost to the taxpayers as whole with the employers who flaunt the tax laws as the prime beneficiaries.