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Originally Posted by bringer
you do realize the "cheap labor" costs the tax payers billions each year? dont you think someone making $40/day which gives them access to housing subsidies, foodstamps, and welfare fairs better than someone making $150/day but gets healthcare taken out of their check and has to pay for food and housing completely. when you also consider that MOST are paid under the table and avoid paying taxes on their earnings, you'll see that people making $20/hour are the real cheap labor.
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I realize cheap labor is one of the only things left keeping manufacturing companies in the US, even if the workers are undocumented. We've lost our edge as a great manufacturing country and the business is all going to China and other asian countries.
FYI undocumented workers don't get housing subsidies, foodstamps, and welfare bro, they don't have valid SS numbers. Maybe poor folks in places like you saw on TV in New Orleans. Illegals usually live multifamily style in one little house. They don't come to the US for handouts. In fact they work so hard, they typically save money to send back home as well as take care of their simple needs here.
A lot now aren't paid under the table. They get taxed. That's why the SSA has accumulated $300 Billion of reported wages with invalid SS #'s that correlate to the regions where the most illegals are. But the government doesn't want to bitch about it because that's all gravy money for the US Treasury that will never have to be paid back to the illegals since they don't file tax returns to get tax refunds.