JOE LEGAL vs. JOSE ILLEGAL
You have two families: “Joe Legal” and “Jose Illegal”.
Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California .
Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes
$25 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number,
and gets paid $15 cash “under the table”.
Ready? Now pay attention…
Joe Legal: $25 per hour x 40 hours = $1000 per week, or $52,000
per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has
$31,231.
Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or
$31,200per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes Jose Illegal now has
$31,200.
Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited
coverage for his family at $600 per month, or $7,200 per year. Joe
Legal now has $24,031.
Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through
the state and local clinics at a cost of $0 per year. Jose Illegal
still has $31,200.
Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food
stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500 per month for food, or
$6,000 per year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for
food stamps and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.
Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200 per month, or $14,400
per year. Joe Legal now has $9,631.
Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month federal rent
subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500 per month, or $6,000 per
year. Jose Illegal still has $ 31,200.
Joe Legal pays $200 per month, or $2,400 for
insurance. Joe Legal now has $7,231.
Jose Illegal says, “We don’t need no stinkin’
insurance!” and still has $31,200.
Joe Legal has to make his $7,231 stretch to pay
utilities, gasoline, etc.
Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200 stretch to pay
utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every
month.
Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part
time job after work.
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with hisfamily.
Joe Legal’s and Jose Illegal’s children both attend
the same school. JoeLegal pays for his children’s lunches while Jose
Illegal’s children get a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal’s children
have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal’s children go home.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services,
but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.
Do you get it, now?
KaD says:
I think we have more than enough of both kinds. There was a time when immigration served this country well, but that time is long since past. The last thing the US needs at this point is more taxi drivers, convenience store clerks and UNskilled labor. We need jobs for the people that were born here. Time to close the doors.
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8th December 2012 at 11:31 am
ron says:
I said this years ago.We have enough unskilled people here already to do manual labor.Our education system helps churn out enough lever pullers.
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8th December 2012 at 12:06 pm
Eddie says:
Roy
This is a great post. Where I live, I see the effects of this clearly, every single day. It’s huge, and it’s ignored for the most part. People just don’t care enought to complain, or they are themselves complicit in this corrupt system.
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8th December 2012 at 2:54 pm
Juan says:
I have tried to convince my friend that giving illegals a driver licence is a positive thing to do. it is not a reward and withholding the licence is not punishment. Documenting the undocumented is the first step to leveling the playing field. Illegals are driving anyway so they may as well be required to pass a driving test. They are working anyway so they might as well be required to pay taxes on their income.
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8th December 2012 at 1:23 am
tbone says:
Juan….
i am praticing some at home surgery on some of my friends, I think I am entitled to a medical license what do you think?
I watch Judge Judy everyday…time for my juris doctorate, and automatic admission to the bar.
your opinion is precisely the problem, you should be commended for making your opposion’s case
well done!
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8th December 2012 at 9:21 am
Dave Francis says:
Let the Liberal progressives do what they want in the next four years, such as tax and spend and whatever issue they have in mind? Then sit back and watch the raging Socialist agenda implode as the general population sees their country being taken over by bloated government, reducing energy supplies of oil, national gas and the closing of the coal industry. Then after this Liberal Socialist financial tidal wave is exhibited, let the wrath of the average American tear through the ranks of these fools that run this country. Watch as the hard core Democrats cut funding to border enforcement, and instituting a new illegal alien amnesty and you paying for everything. The U.S. Constitution was written long before food stamps, (WIC) Women, Infants and Children, including numerous other free food programs, plus many versions of subsidized low income housing (Section 8), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Child Tax Credits (Illegal alien fraud of child tax credits is very prevalent nationwide, to the estimated amount of $7 billion dollars, excluding EITC), Medicaid, free emergency hospital visits, and giveaway cell phones, which is attracting even more impoverished people to our nation. Prior to the current 80 programs now accepted as public assistance immigrants or anybody who came here received nothing, only what a few charities could offer.
After the stock markets shake with fear, more small businesses will be going broke and large corporations sending out feelers for less taxed countries to set up shop. Even more involvement of government in influencing our freedoms, the joke will be on the American people, with even more unemployment, closing businesses and the distributing of even more entitlement; even more welfare for illegal migrants, even more grand “Rules and Regulations” to stifle the creation of small businesses and a sky rocketing deficit at state and federal level and this country on the edge of a even larger red ink abyss. California, the state once associated with progress, has ended up with the last fiscal year with a cash deficit of $9.6 billion. As of November 30, that cash deficit totaled $24.9 billion and is being covered with $14.9 billion of internal borrowing (temporary loans from special funds), and $10 billion of external borrowing.” Billions of these dollars are being spent on illegal aliens turning up here with children, whom become instant citizens. How much does your state payout to mollycoddle foreign nationals who don’t respect our laws and who want something for nothing? There are even organizations advertising in foreign lands to bring their babies here to gain citizenship. Then in most cases they return to the country of origin, but they have the paperwork for the child at a later time to receive a U.S. Passport, and gain admittance for the parents? That’s we so drastically need the passage of THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BILL.
The American worker whether Democrat or Republican should do the right thing for the huge jobless population and demand that the temporary tenant in the Oval office, and all the sub tenants in Washington that thrive on the misery of citizens and honest green card holders pass “THE LEGAL WORKFORCE BILL”. E-Verify is not perfect, but it’s all we have to eject the millions of illegal labor from job market? Throw out Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada as he is like death dealer of any bills in Congress and refuses to allow any reasonable compromise. Stop the massive national theft of Social Security numbers, and install an official ID with a fingerprint or retina scan for all citizens. Approve an amendment to the 14th Amendment, “THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BILL” to sever the growing problem of millions of pregnant women arriving here with unborn babies, to intentionally steal the public assistance programs from our own children, our elderly and homeless. Illegal aliens are stealing our future, the rising need for more taxes and our way of life. Both political parties are entirely to blame, driven by greed, big labor, big religion and the never ending hunt for more votes. States that had no election restrictions on absentee ballots, voting stations was very likely compromised by non citizens voting and now our future is open to expectations.
Study: Obamacare sales tax will cause premiums to rise by up to $10k over 10 years
By Stephen Frank on http://www.capoliticalnews.com
Obama is a sneak. He told us that under ObamaCare we would be able to keep our doctors if we liked them. He never added, “and can afford them”.
“Obamacare “imposes a new sales tax on health insurance that starts at $8 billion in 2014, increase to $14.3 billion in 2018, and will continue to increase each year,” AHIP explains to introduce the study on the Health Insurance Tax (HIT). Although the government taxes the health insurance providers, the Congressional Budget Office acknowledged in 2009 that the cost “would be passed on to purchasers and would ultimately raise insurance premiums by a corresponding amount.”
Seniors health care was sold out by the AARP—the rest of us sold out by Democrats that believe private insurance and doctors should not exists. Add $10,000 to the cost of health care—how many businesses will be able to pay for that? In less than ten years private insurance, hospitals and doctors will disappear from America.
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8th December 2012 at 5:28 pm
Note from Idaho says:
The “black market” economy created by the millions of illegals is never mentioned by the politicians.
The tax hungry politicians ignore tax dollars lost or under the table going to illegals and getting bank transferred back to their hoime countries.
Its a well known dirty secret of American agriculture,construction,landscaping etc .
I simply do not understand how “amnesty” / Immigration reform can even be discussed until an honest number of illegals is determined and the “multiplier factor” of giving these people citizenship, how many relatives will be brought in after citizenship?
What sane country would allow its population be filled with non-citizens? using social services/medical services designed for legal citizens.
Law enforcement is forced to deal with individuals lacking any identification, or means to identify criminal backgrounds etc.
If these individuals were coming over the border in uniform it would be looked upon for what it really is an Invasion.
We are supposed to buy the compassion line…some guy leaves his family South of the border comes here illegally thus separated from his family and we are the ones who now have to feel sorry???
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8th December 2012 at 9:03 am