[La Enchiladita]

Interesting how the administration of a (gasp) democrat governor has gone after public employee pensions and now the hiring of illegals.....

This also highlights the high cost of illegals to our state's economy, and that is just $7 billion in the employment sector. How much are they costing in the education and healthcare sector?

[La Enchiladita]

(snip) The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office pegs the new budget deficit at $13 billion next fiscal year. So getting the underground economy to pay up will help solve about half of that.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

They are going to have to close down every family run Asian and Mexican restaurant in the state. All the kids work for free off the books and all of it gets recycled back into the family pot, and I’m sure they don’t pay for the kids social security either. It is all off the books. For all I know, it is legal not to pay your kids for working in the family restaurant. Basically they become unpaid volunteers and I doubt that is illegal. But the point is, all of the cooks and servers and help who would be paying taxes into the state, when the family runs the restaurant, there is nothing buy the business paying taxes, as all the family are off the books.

[rfp1234]

Great. Start with Algore and his visits to “massage parlors”.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

A growing underground economy is a sure sign that government has become oppressive to those that employ others.

[Brilliant]

California likes to flatter itself. People move out of California to avoid the income tax, and the government’s response is to tax them anyway on the theory that no one would ever want to move out of the State, so they must be faking it to avoid taxes.

Now companies go belly up, yet the State of California will come after their former owners on the theory that they must still be in business, but not paying their taxes.

My suggestion is don’t make the mistake of going to California in the first place. Stay as far away as possible.

[sten]

if a non-lib was in the WH... they would be claiming racism instead of charging after more tax money

[AU72]

Good news for Nevada, Arizona and Oregon.

[jetson]

About twenty years too late, the Mexicans have infiltrated most of the busniesses by now.

[Lancey Howard]

This is hilarious. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and how it squares with Mexifornia’s policy of coddling illegal aliens.

[EGPWS]

The state's going high-tech to crack down on those employers.

Where I am from it's called "biting the hand that feeds you".

[Clock King]

Government as racketeer.

[rottndog]

Agencies are going after businesses that pay employees in cash, avoiding workers compensation insurance and withholding taxes.

Why aren't they going after the employees, as well as the employers??? People who work off the books and don't declare their income and pay taxes are just as guilty as the employers who hire them. You can't have one without the other. If the employers owe $7 billion, the employees probably also owe several billion...why not go after that too???

[RightGeek]

Target rich environment. I wonder when the illegals get an exemption.

[dennisw]

California could make this work by setting up an 800 number to rat people out. Then you would have most of the illegals ratting each other out due to jealousy, lover’s quarrels, revenge, drug deals gone bad....

The possibilities are endless

[Rio]

I used to mow lawns in CA for cash. Would they come after me for that now?

[grey_whiskers]

Hmmm. Smells like cash payments to illegal immigrants at below-govt.-approved wage rates to me...

Let's see -- do they go to Texas or not?

And if they do, does Perry claim credit or not?

Cheers!

[Randy Larsen]

This is a good thing. Employers have been cheating the system for their own benefit, at the cost of us taxpayers, since the early seventies.

[beekay]

this is probably one of the reasons consumer spending continued to increase even while the official unemployment numbers continued to increase.

[ExCTCitizen]

Under the table businesses?? Will that include drug dealers and porn producers?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

There's no way California can get away with this -- unless ILLEGALs are ignored.

If not Gil "One bill" Cedillo and the other Mexican and Latin American representatives in the government will have a bill passed by lunch time Monday and Brown will be there with hundreds of thousands of immigrant "rights" groups to sign the bill.

So if ILLEGALs are 100 times more likely than citizens to be doing this the solution will be to fine the citizens 100 times more. That's California!