gtalum wrote:Stephanie wrote:There is definately a need for control of the immigration situation for national security and because there's alot of governmental services going to these illegal immigrants. We should try and get back some of these costs through taxation of their wages or something.
This is one of several reasons that I suggest offering free entry to all North Americans. WHen you legalize them, their wages become taxable.
I can see that to a point, but I can see it then becoming a free-for-all, not to mention what will happen with the minimum wage workers already. I think that if they want to work here, we need to control who we do let in and tax them in some fashion.
As far as your comment MGC about the people content on staying home to draw their unemployment check - I think ACTUALLY, it should be relegated more to the "welfare" workers. IMHO, they should be contributing something back to society and I can't imagine that there isn't a task that they couldn't do in order to get that check. You're right about some being on unemployment and not caring about whether they get a job or not. I'm more concerned with those that have lost their jobs, need to find something comparable to what they were making previously and if they were to take a minimum wage job like that they would probably end up losing their houses, etc. I look at unemployment as a temporary solution and fortunately have never had to use it, even though I was laid off once. I got a temporary job tide me over.
Okay, off the soap-box!
