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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (17934)	2/6/2024 9:21:32 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26814

So here in California we are told to hire illegal immigrants from the "Day Worker Center" that charges more than minimum wage and I have no idea if their "fee" goes to Social Security and Medicare plus withholding for state and federal taxes or if they get to keep it all with the assumption they won't file and won't make enough to pay taxes... crazy. We also give them free education for their kids which I think is worth $24K a year in Oakland and is the reason so many have kids with them crossing the borders illegally. I think it is more here because the schools hit up the parents for about $10K a kid extra in "donations." We also give them driver's licenses and some cities let them vote because "they pay sales taxes and should have a say in how they are spent." Assuming they don't pay Federal and State taxes and thus don't show any income, they are eligible for free medical care, subsidized gas and electricity at their apartments, food stamps, free food at the food bank I donate to, etc... Oh, and their kids can get FREE education at the UC colleges often displacing kids of legal immigrants who have to send their kids to more expensive schools out of state. BUT you want ME and others who hire workers to police them for immigration status? Give me a break. That is the government's job! If anyone shows up for any government service, discount, education, free food, etc. they should have to prove they are here legally or get deported. I went to Baja when I was working remotely for an internet startup in the 2000s for stock options and a share of what revenue I brought in for ads... so very little. I asked at the windsurfing resort I was staying at if they hired people like me for jobs to teach windsurfing. They said by law they were only allowed to hire people who lived in and were born in Baja, Mexico. And if I was caught working under the table teaching on my own, the police would toss me in jail, probably give me a beating, then request money from my family in the US before deporting me. Quite a contrast!