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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (168482)	12/2/2008 9:27:16 PM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Recent immigrants (whether legal or not) tend on average to be poor, badly educated, and very expensive in terms of public services. Those people are highly concentrated in the LA and NY areas. that's the biggest reason for the high taxes in those two states. If there are resentments to be held, consider the river of tax money that flows every year from the affluent Bay Area down to the ghettos of LA. I'm very surprised there hasn't been a secession movement to split the state south of Big Sur (we'll keep Big Sur itself, thanks). Maybe it'll come in a few years.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (168482)	12/2/2008 11:03:03 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Your logic is very badly flawed. You apparently have never tried hiring for manual labor at near minimum wage. The only applicants (prior to the 9/11 crackdown) were illegals. Why is this??