It’s their money, they worked for it... except it’s not really, or at least, not completely.
The debating points are usually incomplete:
The Dems want votes, eventually, and don’t mind increasing costs on us in the meantime. On the Republican side, it’s often said that what they want is cheap labor. But, the labor isn’t really cheap—the illegals get paid less, but that’s because while they don’t pay taxes, the rest of us pick up their tab in free medical, education for their illegal and anchor baby children, and increased criminal costs.
It’s just another form of cost-shifting to the taxpayer at large while some benefit.
That’s why it’s not really their money.
They get paid under the table in cash and also get all welfare benefits for imaginary children, free legal representation for the crimes they commit, free education and medical benefits.
Tax that money at 50%.
And if they used your Social Security number you get to pay the taxes on it.
What a deal!
Not if it's illegals. It's not their money. It's stolen from us. And, here in NYC, there are so many "immigrants" committing fraud with food stamps. They sell the food they get for them or otherwise turn the food stamps into cash. They also ship the food to their "home" countries, and the bodegas actively enable them to do so, flouting the law, by selling them the plastic Sterlite containers to pack the food in!
NY Food Stamp Recipients Are Shipping Welfare-Funded Groceries to Relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti
Kate Briquelet and Isabel Vincent, New York Post, July 21, 2013
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout—with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.
The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.
The United States spent $522.7 million on foreign aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year, government data show.
Still, New Yorkers say they ship the food because staples available in the States are superior and less costly than what their families can get abroad.
“Everybody does it,” said a worker at an Associated Supermarket in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. “They pay for it any way they can. A lot of people pay with EBT.”
Customers pay cash for the barrels, usually about $40, and typically ship them filled with $500 to $2,000 worth of rice, beans, pasta, canned milk and sausages.
Workers at the Pioneer Supermarket on Parkside Avenue and the Key Food on Flatbush Avenue confirmed the practice.
They said food-stamp recipients typically take home their barrels and fill them gradually over time with food bought with EBT cards.