Posted on 04/07/2006 3:29:31 PM PDT by Liz
Thank you for some great ideas. I plan to report several local communities that have established "work centers" for the illegal aliens to the SEC.
FREEPER ACTIVISM: If municipalities advertising and referending tax-exempt municipal) transportation and highway bonds, municipal school bonding, utilities bonding, and the like, are using tax monies illegally and are aiding and abetting illegals activities, they are violating their fiduciary responsibility and engaging in felonious activity. They could be held liable. The SEC should be advised of these concerns. EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov.
FREEPER ACTIVISM Most bonding agents and underwriters conducting municipal business are registered broker-dealers and members of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). They are violating their fiduciary responsibility if they choose to ignore felonious activity. They could be held liable. NASD and SIPC should also be contacted regarding concerns about fiduciaries ignoring illegals activity.
FREEPER ACTIVISM Banks doing business with municipalities on bonding issues that are conducting illegal activity are violating their fiduciary responsibility if they choose to ignore felonious activity. They could be held liable for jeopardizing bank patrons, shareholders, and depositors and should be reported as follows:
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is the primary federal regulator for national banks. The OCC's Customer Assistance Group is available to assist customers with questions or complaints concerning national banks. Email Customer.Assistance@occ.treas.gov.
General information about the Customer Assistance Group is available on their web site: http://www.occ.treas.gov/customer.htm.
You can reach one of the OCC Customer Assistance Specialists by calling toll free number, 1-800-613-6743, Monday-Thursday, 9-4, and Friday 9-3.
The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers
inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists'
abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees.
Here's an interesting new thread on new legal reform progress that finally
emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts
We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the
neighborly thing to do?
Towns using tax monies inappropriately to build "muster zones" for illegal aliens are aiding and abetting and are jeopardizing the tax-exempt investments of bondholders of municipal, transportation, school, and utility bond issues.
Most of these bonding issues are on municipal ballots as voter referenda. Elected officials under oath involved in placing these on ballots with improper notification, without advising voters and potential bondholders of the use of tax monies, are violating their fiduciary responsibility.
There is nothing in state and federal constitutions, in US statutes, or in textbook US economics, that permits elected public officials, and government-funded agencies, to violate the law, gouge taxpayers, cheat bondholders, or to engage in illegal practices with impunity.
They should be prosecuted under state and federal law.
Mexico is Rich- Mexican wealthy play American taxpayers for suckers
SOURCE http://www.limitstogrowth.org/ | 2005 | Brenda Walker
FR POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608417/posts
Certainly there are many poor people in Mexico, since perhaps half the country lives in poverty. However, the nation as a whole is quite rich — see the documented facts listed below — and could well finance the sort of improvements in education and infrastructure that would better the living standards of all Mexicans.
But the Mexican ultra-rich, like telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim shown here, don't like to tax themselves for investment the country badly needs for infrastructure and education, and it helps them greatly that the American taxpayer has been forced to support Mexicans living in the United States.
Interestingly, the Forbes list of billionaires published in 2006 showed Carlos Slim moving up to the number three spot among the world's richest men. Every dollar spent in U.S. taxes for social services for illegal aliens frees up additional cash to be sent south as part of the annual remittances which provided $20 billion in 2005.
According to the CNN news show Lou Dobbs Tonight (3/21/05), "Remittances, as they're called, are expected to become Mexico's primary source of income this year, surpassing the amount of money that Mexico makes on oil exports for the first time ever." So when el Presidente Vicente Fox complains that the "dignity" of Mexicans living illegally in America requires that they receive free healthcare on the U.S. taxpayer's dime, he is really talking about increased remittances to keep their whole corrupt system afloat.
Consider these relevent facts:
• Mexico has the second-highest highest Gross Domestic Product in Latin America, after being #1 for several years over second-place Brazil.
• When measured in GDP per capita, Mexico ranks #1 as of 2005, ahead of Chile and Venezuela.
• According to Forbes magazine, a substantial proportion of Latin American billionaires, 10 out of 26, were Mexican as of 2005.
• Mexico raises less revenue through taxation than nearly any other Latin American country, just 12 percent which is one reason why the nation's wealth is not better utilized. By comparison, the United States takes in 25-28 percent of its gross domestic profit in taxes. Even Brazil taxes itself at twice the Mexican rate.
• Economist Gary Hufbauer of the Institute for International Economics has remarked, "It's up to Mexico to solve its problem, and basically the wealthy classes do not want to tax themselves, period. While I'm not usually an advocate for larger government, Mexico is a country where public investment, done wisely, could pay huge dividends."
• Mexico expert Prof. George Grayson of William and Mary College calls Mexico an "immensely wealthy nation."
• Mexico's economy is the world's tenth largest.
• When the ruling party needed a hefty sum for the 1994 election, Presidente Salinas leaned on a group of rich businessmen to write $25 million checks each at an infamous dinner party, where contributions totaled a staggering $750 million by evening's end. Compare that with the measly $150 million campaign chest in spring 2004 that President Bush had accumulated after three years in office.
• Freedom House notes the cost of corruption: "According a recent study by the Mexico chapter of Transparency International, some $2.3 billion-approximately one percent-of the country's economic production goes to officials in bribes, with the poorest families paying nearly 14 percent of their income in bribes."
• Ricas y Famosas — Rich and Famous is a book of photos that takes a peek at the hidden world of the Mexican ultra-rich. Photographer Daniela Rossell used her membership in the exclusive club to reveal the decadent lifestyles of blonde women in gold lamé. It is a shocking view of the most extreme ostentatious wealth among great poverty.
• Sure Things in Mexico: Death, Taxes and Evasion According the recent rankings released from the IMD International, the Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development placed Mexico at 56 out of 60 economies examined, largely because of a dearth of investment in everything from infrastructure to education. Due to its pathetic tax collection, Mexico cannot even buy schoolbooks or pay its police enough to live on, much less invest in its future.
• Lou Dobbs Tonight Transcript (12/16/04) The CNN news show shines a light on Mexican wealth. Particularly noteworthy is Prof. Grayson's remark: "There is a small economic elite who live like maharajas, and there's a political elite that protects them. Our border provides an escape valve which really lets the Mexican political and economic elite off the hook in terms of providing opportunities for their own people."
• While US Focuses on Iraq, Mexico is Collapsing June, 2005, and the symptoms of Mexico's failure as a state are accumulating. The recent takeover of border city Nuevo Laredo by the Mexican army because of the breakdown in law and order was so obvious.
Interestingly, Defense chief Donald Rumsfeld is guided by a secret Pentagon report which identifies Mexico as a potential failed state in the making.
For more, read "Mexico's Rich Don't Like To Pay Taxes — They Think You Should."
I think it's a slippery slope to advocate greater taxation and government spending as a "solution" for Mexico, despite what folks in and near Washington D.C. predictably claim (with support from bureaucrats and Leftie donors, as well). I think the solution is tackling monopolies like Mexico is TRYING to do:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts
Competition and an overall pro-entrepreneurial climate are something Mexicans have lacked for so long that a Communist could get elected president this July 2nd. As that thread shows though, the race is currently neck & neck.
Thanks for your help!
I would like to propose that whenever these marchers shout "Si! Se Pueda!" [Yes! we can!], we reply "No! Usted no pueda" [No! You cannot!].
BTW. I finished your book. Outstanding!
My suggestion:
"Illegal aliens are criminal invaders!"
"!Extranjeros ilegales son invasores criminales!"
See, it's understandable in both languages, it even rhymes and works as a nice chant in spanish, and they HATE it.
I like it. I wish I had thought about it in time, but it would have been cool to do up a bunch of signs with both slogans (one on each side), and have a bunch of Freepers just slip into the crowd with them to see if anyone would notice.
Every time I see the invaders on TV or hear them on the radio, their most common theme is "We're not criminals!"
So you know that is their touchiest subject. Very touchy. That's where to drive it in.
And here-----ways to proceed.
Ways to proceed here.
Ways to proceed here.
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