Mercnbeth
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How many years of the most recent five years have you paid your Federal Taxes? It's not a trick question. If you are an illegal immigrant standing by waiting for amnesty you only have to concern yourself with paying taxes for 3 of the most recent 5 years of Federal Income Tax. Makes you wish you were illegal huh?
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Under the Senate bill, an illegal alien gets the option of having to pay only three of the previous five years of back taxes. Such a deal, one that legal Americans would die for (and go to prison if they tried it).
Does this part of the Bill make you feel 'secure'?
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The Department of Homeland Security would be required to conduct "background checks" on the 11 million illegals and "encouraged" to do so within 90 days. We can imagine how thorough these checks will have to be, short of hiring millions of new Homeland Security agents.
You can read any number of sources for this story. These excerpts come from: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/pruden.htm
If you have masochistic tendencies or just want to get completely pissed off, you can read the Bill in it's entirety here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02611:
Here is the letter I sent earlier to the President, my senators and congressman. The Senate battle is lost. There weren't enough of them up for re-election in states where fear of losing the election on this issue entered into the equation. However EVERY seat is congress is up. Take the time to let them know your feelings.
Ask them where do you sign up for the ability to pay taxes 60% of the years you've had an income.
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President George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Mr. President:
It is a crying shame what you are doing to my Country. If I were writing this as recently as two years ago I would have added that it is a crying shame what you are doing to my Republican Party. However, I no longer identify with a party, who has as its de facto leader, a President who has overseen the largest increase in spending resulting in such a huge budget deficit. I take issue, as a “Reagan Republican”, that these things occurred while the same party controlled both houses of Congress.
I see the consequences of the policies you endorse to be long reaching. I respect your humanitarian efforts. I appreciate your desire to bring democracy to a land and people with no historical democratic reference. I greatly admire that your personal commitment to God influences your positions on matters such as abortion. I do not agree with some of these positions, but I respect your commitment, against personal attack. I can not supportive of your position concerning the illegal aliens. It appears on this issue you are more concerned with the safety and security of the Iraqi citizens than you are of the citizens of the United States.
I know that the unemployment rate of 4.7% is the lowest it’s been in my lifetime. But I know just as well, and I’m sure you appreciate, that positions as a clerical or service worker are not the same, nor do they have the associated benefits, as the manufacturing position at General Motors that my father worked for 30 years.
The argument you, and everyone else supporting the assimilation of the illegal immigrant population, is that you can’t deport everyone currently here illegally. I’ll stipulate to that position. My solution would not require any such mass deportation or cost the American taxpayer one dime. I propose that employer enforcement be the essential cog of solving this problem. I advocate establishing a deadline of August 1, 2006 to be the day for all employers to establish the legal residency of their employers. From that day forward the following penalties would be incurred if it’s determined any employee is in the country illegally.
First Offense: Fine equivalent to the cost of deportation of the employee(s).
Second Offense: Fine equivalent of five (5) times the cost of deportation of the employee(s)
Third Offense: Fine equivalent of ten (10) times the cost of deportation and mandatory six month prison time for all company owners or officers.
I see this plan accomplishing two objectives. It will eliminate the cost objection of deportation and it will be a disincentive for anyone to come to the US illegally. Enforcement would be at the corporate level as well as the individual level for people hiring “day workers” at the Home Depot.
An ancillary benefit will be increased wages for US workers. It may raise the cost of goods, but paying a US worker a salary for those goods is more acceptable than paying an illegal alien anything. All the distracting issues such as the language the National Anthem is sung become moot. If, under that enforcement, a plurality of citizens want Finnish as the official US language – so be it.
Here in California a high school public education is valueless. As an employer, I give no credibility to anyone’s CA HS diploma. All that tells me is that they attended enough days, and didn’t do anything that warranted them to be expelled. They have no skills in communicating in English, and can not do rudimentary math. Some of that may be caused by the liberal multi cultural politics of the State, but the overwhelming cause is the illegal aliens and their families creating an environment not conducive to learning.
You are trying to sell us on the idea that after your “Guest Worker” program is in effect, employer enforcement and border security will get better. How? Why then and not now? Why can’t you communicate clearly how granting rights to people here illegally should be palatable to me and many other Americans? Why is Mexico the preferred country? What do we say to the thousands from countries other than Mexico who came here legally and are waiting in a long line for similar access? Where is the “justice” that America represents? How is it that your program grants an easier path to someone who was able to get away with an illegal act longer? Consistent application of the logic of the length of time you are able to get away with something working in your favor would allow for the position that if bin Laden evades us and attacks us for 10 years he gets incurs a lesser penalty, versus if we caught him soon after 9/11.
I’ve already made the decision to vote against any incumbent candidate regardless of party affiliation. I’m doing my best to make as many of my friends and associates to consider the same decision. Many of us believe there is nobody currently representing us.
Mr. President, I doubt that you will ever see this correspondence. I greatly respect the office of the President, and you as an individual. I do not respect how you managed this country over the past two years. Please have the same consideration for US citizens and their security, both economical and political, as you do for the Iraqi.
If anyone has read this – thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
cc: Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Representative Dana Rohrabacher
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