Quote Originally Posted by Sushigaijin
What estimate is that? Who made that estimate? If they are working, they are paying taxes. Everyone pays taxes.

There is a minority that work for cash - day laborers, hired by contractors for a project or the day, who do not pay income tax. .
You are REALLY blind to the facts. Illegals are those who are without legal documentation, whether they snuck across the boarder or stayed after their green cards expired. These people, very few of which use forged documents work illegally for people who hire them and pay under the table, just because they work DOESN'T mean they are paying taxes, in fact the majority of the 20 million illegals are paid under the table as paying taxes draws the attention of the Feds. Thats what got the attention of the Feds in the bridge incident. That 10% that are paying taxes are the ones who get caught like the 77 illegals working on the bridge projects, 26 of who worked for the guy from NC. They were found because they used false documents.

Most of those who are working are doing so through employers who pay under the table, ones like a guy in Indy who has the same Mexicans working for him for the past 12 years and they work 6 days a week for the money of an American citizen doing jobs that Americans WOULD do if the guy wasn't so cheap and money hungry. Maybe you need to open your eyes to what is really going on with these people, it's obvious your missing a lot. As for this guy, he has some 60+ Mexicans working for him rehabing homes. These guys are doing jobs such drywall and carpentry, electrical (without training no less) plumbing and more. I once saw one job they did where the plumbing ran right next to a 200Amp service. I can see it now, some poor sucker buys this home, has to reset a breaker and slips as he resets it and grabs the water line as his other hand hits the open service panel (because they never put the covers on. The guy is so cheap hje doesn't get permits for the renovations, not even for plumbing and electrical. Of course the Mexicans won't tell on him because they would get deported.... but hey, he can afford to go gamble and do his coke (which he buys from one of his Mexican "employees"). It's nothing for him to work them 14 hours a day, and he isn't the only one, it's nationwide, and not just in that business, it's all of them. And no, he doesn't pay OT or vacation or anything, although he may buy a beer now and then.

BTW, I always take a gun to a knife fight, and a bigger gun to a gun fight :thumbsup:

JS