Quote:Changing the tax code I'm referring to eliminating the income tax all together and replacing it with a consumption tax. The problem with illegal immigrants is they earn income that is not taxed and then add a cost to society. A consumption tax everyone is paying into the system when they spend. It doesn't tax money that's sent home fine, but that's never going to be taxed anyway.

 

Secondly ending federal welfare is different from ending welfare. The magnets that bring illegal workers here are either tax free income (more then they can make in their native land) or welfare benefits not available in their native land ( obviously this welfare is collected fraudulently but it's still a magnet.) The best way to reduce or eliminate welfare fraud is to make states responsible for funding it themselves.

 

We could build a 100ft wall they'd dig a hole under it or build a 110ft ladder. We could deport everyone they'd turn around and come back. We could pass a national ID law they'd find a way to forge it. The only way to address illegal immigration is to turn off the magnets. Tax free income and welfare.

Your plan and Obama's both have the SAME PROBLEM:


It does nothing to address the increased supply of labor that illegals provide.  


You have to cut off the jobs, not tax their income.  Because even with a consumption tax, it's not going to discourage them from coming here when they'll still make more money here than they would back home. And that consumption tax won't hit them when they send money back home anyway.

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