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by labor pool you mean foreign labor paid under the table at slave wages w/o benefits or tax collection who meanwhile use US ERs as primary care doctors and US
by macinjosh 1y ago
by labor pool you mean foreign labor paid under the table at slave wages w/o benefits or tax collection who meanwhile use US ERs as primary care doctors and US schools to feed and watch their kids for them.
- onedognight 1y agoIf the employees are being paid under the table, they would mean the employers were committing an obvious crime opening the employer to extortion. However, if the employees were Using fake social security numbers, then it would give the employers the benefit of the doubt. It also would mean the employees do pay takes, collected by their employers. From what I’ve heard, the latter is most common.
- georgemcbay 1y agoMost undocumented immigrant laborers actually do pay taxes despite not being able to take advantage of what they are being taxed for (eg. social security). And there have always been aspects of using undocumented labor that are negative and exploitative and I'm all for the US government making real positive changes in this area, but any policymaker coming at this from a non-racist perspective that wanted to make real changes would do it by fining or charging the people who are hiring the immigrants. Of course, that's not what the Trump administration has done or will do.
- andrewl 1y agoEven if they pay no other taxes, they do pay sales tax on their purchases at stores, gas stations, and so on. And those taxes go to the state or local government, and help pay for school and other services.