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Tomatoes and Cheap Labor

By Bob Rose  Posted by Dan Merica (about the submitter)       (Page 2 of 2 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   No comments
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Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.  
  • He also qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
      
  • He qualifies for food stamps.
      
  • He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care
      
  • His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
     
  • He requires bilingual teachers and books.
     
  • He qualifies for relief from high-energy bills.
     
  • If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare.

All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.

The illegal alien doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material. He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits. Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his. The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean up.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.

 

 

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