Many work off the books of course. No payroll taxes; no employer portion of payroll taxes. No SDI, no workers comp insurance, no SS tax etc. Some are self employed doing odd jobs for cash. All cash business, non-reporting, on paper you look poor so you get benefits.
This is one of the reasons they want to snoop in on bank accounts with $600 or more. Same reason some states have cracked down on ‘gig workers’ even though they argued it as if they were doing uber drivers, piano players and independent writers a favor. Next they will go after various other independent operators like beauticians. They usually just rent space and get paid a lot in cash by their clients. Industries like that will be in the crosshairs soon enough. The $600 bank account thing is a blanket way to snoop in on everyone without having to target industries one by one.
I’d rather have a few people get away with unreported income than the IRS being even more intrusive. Liberals are totalitarian monster.
“ The $600 bank account thing is a blanket way to snoop in on everyone without having to target industries one by one.”
When I lived in Japan a score of years ago, I knew quite a few illegal aliens. I was introduced to the underground banking system they used to avoid having to use the government-monitored commercial system. Some guy, usually in a legitimate export/import company, would hold cash, make loans, make bill payments, and transfer money in and out of Japan - all for a fee, of course. Japan at that time was a cash society, so that made such deals less suspicious, but I imagine they’re still around.
Given the number of illegals and foreign gangs here, there must be the same thing going on here.
“The $600 bank account thing is a blanket way to snoop in on everyone without having to target industries one by one.”
How is that not a violation of the 4th amendment?
As the political class pushes us towards Socialism they are going to find that the people are going to put down their tools and refuse to work.