Se Puede Get Two Years Tax-Free!

Human Events ^ | May 31, 2006 | Ann Coulter

[boryeulb]

If Congress adopts the Bush plan and gives amnesty to illegal aliens, Senate Republicans will be asking President Cheney for a pardon.

Get Yours FREE!

Bush wants to grant illegal aliens amnesty while sounding like he's really cracking down on them. It tells you where Americans stand on illegal immigration that Bush has to pull the Democrat trick of hiding from the public what he really believes when it comes to immigration.

The "path to citizenship" that Bush and the Senate are trying to pawn off on Americans requires that illegals pay huge fines and back taxes, with "huge" being defined as a $2,000 fine and taxes for three of the last five years. Even with the special "Two Years Tax-Free" package for illegals, this is about as likely as me paying my dad back the money I "borrowed" from him when I was in college.

We're told illegal immigrants are dying to pay taxes if only they can become citizens. Oh by the way, they also will have a panoply of government benefits available to them if they become citizens -- in fact, even if they get green cards. They're probably unaware of this and are just dying to send half their paychecks to the government just like us shiftless, lazy Americans.

Inasmuch as most of these low-skilled immigrant workers are in the 0% tax bracket, this should be a real boon for the U.S. Treasury. Indeed, the government may end up paying the illegals money: "Let's see, Juan. According to our records, you owe us 0% for the past three years, and because you qualify for the earned-income tax credit, we actually owe you! Are 20s OK?"

The Senate bill also forgives illegal aliens who have committed identity theft by stealing American Social Security numbers to get jobs.

So in addition to the Two Years Tax-Free plan for illegals, they get one free felony. Also, illegal immigrants from Mexico qualify for affirmative action, allowing them to get into U.S. colleges with lower grades and scores than Americans.

What's the process for losing your citizenship and becoming an illegal alien?

However hardworking illegal immigrants are when they come here, the moment they become citizens, they will be immediately demagogued by Democrats into viewing welfare as a universal human right, just as they now view living in America.

Of course illegal immigrants will "work for less." They don't have to pay taxes at all now, and under Bush's plan they will have to pay taxes for only -- at most -- three of the last five years. Not only that, but illegal aliens don't require their employers to comply with OSHA regulations, overtime and minimum wage laws, unemployment insurance, disability laws, the Family and Medical Leave Act, a slew of oppressive environmental regulations, and 4 million other ways the government has developed to make it extremely expensive to hire legal employees.

Instead of creating a separate class of citizens who are immune from oppressive government rules, how about relieving all of us -- even us shiftless Americans -- from the cost of government?

I thought all these trade agreements the free-trade fetishists have pushed on us over the years already allowed corporations to take advantage of cheap labor in other countries -- countries that don't have the panoply of oppressive government regulations that make it so expensive to hire American workers. Doesn't NAFTA already allow us to buy inexpensive goods made by Mexicans in Mexico?

In addition to discriminating against American citizens in favor of illegal immigrants, Bush wants to continue our immigration policy of massively discriminating against immigrants who live farther than walking distance from the United States. America's immigration laws are applied only to immigrants who are separated from the U.S. by an ocean. But if they live near the border and can run across it, they're in.

Even if one accepts Bush's theory that we need more immigrants to do the jobs that lazy, shiftless Americans won't do, isn't it possible that Korean immigrants, Italian immigrants or Indian immigrants would work hard too? But they can't run across the border to America, so they're out of luck. (Unless you are spokesmen for the Taliban, in which case there's a seat waiting for you at Yale.)

Since when did conservatives start encouraging people to walk more? What are we, a bunch of Al Gores now?

[Rummyfan]

They're not only whores, but they're cheap whores at that.

I thought that was worth repeating!!!!!

[Rummyfan]

Thanks! Ann's so right on it's depressing....

[Plutarch]

Inasmuch as most of these low-skilled immigrant workers are in the 0% tax bracket, this should be a real boon for the U.S. Treasury. Indeed, the government may end up paying the illegals money: "Let's see, Juan. According to our records, you owe us 0% for the past three years, and because you qualify for the earned-income tax credit, we actually owe you! Are 20s OK?"

Aha! Ann obviously was inspired by my threads on this subject:

Would the illegals' Hagel-Martinez tax payment actually be an EITC payout? , and...

Under Hagel-Martinez, illegals to receive yearly Government check for up to $4,700.

[dennisw]

She forgets that these illegal alien intruders will be eligible for affirmative action programs. Same for their children. No immigrant should be allowed affirmative action. Why should some clown from Haiti or Nicaragua be eligible for it? They came to this "racist" nation of their own volition

[airedale]

I haven't read the Senate bill yet but does it require them to pay penalties and interest on the back taxes or is that waived? My bet is that the way the law is worded that all penalties and interest if owed are not to be assessed. The bill probably says pay back taxes period and in doing so the law would (to my non tax lawyer brain) waive the penalties and interest since they aren't mentioned and this is a newer law that would supersede prior law and administrative rulings.

Anyone know for sure one way or the other?

[dandiegirl]

"Mexican illegal aliens will be able to apply for and receive US Social Security benefits after having worked (illegally) in the US for only 6 quarters (18 months) while US citizens (read: you and I) have to work 40 quarters (10 years) before we're eligible to apply."

What is WRONG with PRESIDENT BUSH???????????????????????????

[AmericaOne]

The Senate bill also forgives illegal aliens who have committed identity theft by stealing American Social Security numbers to get jobs.

Just lovely!!!

[freepatriot32]

Let's see, Juan. According to our records, you owe us 0% for the past three years, and because you qualify for the earned-income tax credit, we actually owe you! Are 20s OK?"

The Senate bill also forgives illegal aliens who have committed identity theft by stealing American Social Security numbers to get jobs.

So in addition to the Two Years Tax-Free plan for illegals, they get one free felony. Also, illegal immigrants from Mexico qualify for affirmative action, allowing them to get into U.S. colleges with lower grades and scores than Americans

I would like to announce my name is no longer freepatriot32 its is now freeto patrito what ever the spanish word for three is doce.I'm going to need all of your social security numbers so you can prove to me that you are actually on my libertarian ping list. Just mail me the cards to my new home in tihauna. I'll give them back to you when I sneak across the border a few weeks after I get there. Viva la aztland,no habla englis.

Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here

[KoRn]

ROFL!

[sinkspur]

Not through sinkspur's prism. In his eyes, we're all dumber than dirt.

I never really thought about it, but, now that you mention it, yeah. Since you seem to be obsessed with what I think, you are really dumber than dirt.

[ex-Texan]



And that isn't even the half of it.

[IRtorqued]

they are only doing what baalzabush demands, get your first born ready baalzabush has plans.

[KoRn]

"obsessed with what I think"

Today I was at the grocery store just struggling with the decision. Should it be the fillet mignon, or chicken kabobs? Then I said to myself; what would sinkspur do?

[sinkspur]

Today I was at the grocery store just struggling with the decision. Should it be the fillet mignon, or chicken kabobs? Then I said to myself; what would sinkspur do?

So you never have to ask: the filet. Always the filet. Oh, and get yourself a nice $30 Zinfandel. From California, preferably.

[KoRn]

"So you never have to ask: the filet. Always the filet."

Just so you know, they were very good as always! =)

[Cobra64]

Since you seem to be obsessed with what I think, you are really dumber than dirt.

Interesting notion. I reviwed your communiques with other FReepers and it appears that your primary focus here is to annoy people.

Do you have any friends or family?

[7thson]

She is not the only one disillusioned with the administration. I heard President Bush on last nights news give a 'ringing' defense of the USMC. Reminded me of the 'ringing' endorsement his brother gave Katherine Harris. John Warner gave a better defense of the Corps than Bush. He seems to be getting weaker by the day.

[subterfuge]

She forgets that these illegal alien intruders will be eligible for affirmative action programs

Really? Because included in the article is this:

Also, illegal immigrants from Mexico qualify for affirmative action,

[subterfuge]

I think what Ann is saying is that none will pay the penalties or taxes and that there is no government agency that is going to force them to.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I have nothing personal against Bush. I think he's the most conservative President we are likely to see for the rest of our lifetimes. Once he leaves office in 2009, it's going to be a long time before we see anyone advocating tax cuts or nominating judges like Samuel Alito.

But this immigration debate has made one thing starkly clear to me, something I already knew but hadn't expected to ever see demonstrated so blatantly:

American government's primary purpose is to carry out the transfer of wealth from the smaller group of people who create it to the larger group of people who don't know how to create it, in the hope of securing the lasting political support of the larger group.

This purpose cuts across all party lines and all good intentions. New representatives who go to Washington in the hopes of making a stand against this purpose find themselves cajoled, influenced, or even threatened to change their opinions - and ultimately decide to go along, hoping they can at least do some good. Thus the slack-jawed dismay of Frist, et al, at the fact that the base doesn't appreciate the good they have done and the pressure they are under to "go along to get along". It literally does come down to: "You've got your SUV's and your McMansions and your malls...what the hell do you want now? Shut up and let us do what we need to do to keep the economy (i.e., tx revenues) flowing!"

It's no longer a Republican vs. Democrat debate - both parties are pursuing the same goal using very different rhetoric. Republicans will get us there a bit slower and with a bit more respect for tradition - Democrats will get us there more quickly and non-traditionally, but never doubt that both major parties are headed for the same post-modernist train station: an imperial government served by its people, and paternalistically serving them in turn by paying their bills and making most of their life decisions. Sadly, far too many Americans see this as a good place to end up - freedom from responsibility and more time to watch TV. ;)