Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message hereAnother bandaid...
Might as well block PayPal, too.
Anyone who has talked to immigrants both legal and illegal knows these folks are shipping huge amounts of tax-free cash out of the country by every means possible. Foreigners in the US are supporting their families around the world with under the table earnings and the scale is massive.
So he's proposing creating a 20B a year underground money transfer industry ? That we can't monitor. Oh that's great.
Secure the damn border. Fine employers (for real). None of this 'creative' boloney. It isn't that difficult.
Heard that each taxpayer pays an additional $2000 annually to cover the underground economy.
Why can't these funds be confiscated as the fruit of illegal activity.
Why can't racketeering laws apply?
Ooops. On second thought, the illegals would just bring all of their extended family over if they can't wire money to them at home in Mexico. Bad idea...
"The proposal, if adopted by Congress, would require anyone wiring money to Mexico to provide identification to financial institutions or wire-transfer operators to prove citizenship. "
Oh, that'll work. I don't suppose any of these illegals have friends or co-workers who are citizens, eh? Silliness. It'll just make for new businesses to take money from the illegals and then wire it to Mexico, using a citizen to do the wiring. Dumb!
"The economy, he contended, bears the cost of illegal aliens, who pay no taxes but receive taxpayer-funded services."
How come they don't pay taxes?
Why not just stop employers from paying the illegal workers in the first place?
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Why not a ban on illegals?
STUPID!
How the heck do you prove the transferee is an illegal? Or are we going to ASSUME the transfer is illegal until you produce your Birth Certificate, Passport, etc.?
Tax these transfers, and tax them heavily.
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message hereBanning illegal aliens from wiring money would likely just change how they send money back home.
I'm also curious how they would expect the wire companies to verify that their customers are in the country legally.
This might be possible once States start requiring that people prove they are in the country legally before getting a drivers license, but until that happens, it's going to be very difficult for a wire transfer company to enforce this.
I would support legislation that would require a drivers license that conforms with the Real Id Act to send wire transfers or open a bank account, but until the Real Id Act really goes into effect, I'm not sure this is really practical to enforce.
I like the idea in general, I'm just not sure it can be implemented yet.
How bout we make it illegal to give them money in the first place? Oh yeah it already is. Ok how about we enforce the laws. The only way they will go or (at least fewer will come) is if there is no money for them here in the first place..
this would just create an intermediary site for wire transfers to pass through. Say US to FRANCE to Mexico.
Sorry, I don't want to have to give my SSN or produce a passport in order to do a wire transfer.
Ban it all we want, how could such a law even attempt to be enforced?