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Originally Posted by izzur
I think "very little cost to the American taxpayer" is wrong, and I'm not sure why you think that. Without getting into the debate over how much of our economy relies on illegal immigrants and the labor shortage we'd face if they all "self-deported", who pays for the e-verification? That requires records, computer systems, internet access, things which require expensive equipment that the constructions sites, hotels, farms and other capital-poor businesses which tend to hire illegals would have to pay for, out of their taxpayer dollars.
The alternative is that the system is financed and paid for by the government on the taxpayer's dime rather than the employers, but that still hurts taxpayers.
After all this, you still have to take into account the increased costs of operations incurred by business that now have to pay more money for legal workers (most of whom wouldn't do the sort of labor Mexicans do for minimum wage in a million years). Cost of business goes up, prices rise to reflect it, taxpayers suffer. QED.
I wish people would just accept that the illegal immigrant labor pool is not just important, but vital.
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Nice wish based in a false premise. I'm not sure where you live, but I have been to only one business in the last five years that didn't do their bookkeeping on a computer with a telephone on the desk. It was a husband and wife dentist office. Every construction site has a management trailer complete with phone and computer, they're not doing their payroll on paper. I worked as a copy and fax repair person and visited zillions of types of businesses. From construction sites, fast food restaurants and AM/PM mini markets all use computers to handle their inventory. In fact most of their inventory control is done automatically. As they sell product the inventory declines, when a preset level is achieved, the computer automatically phone home with a new merchandise order.
E-verification requires NO special software. Just a computer, a phone line and an internet connection. You can get a computer these day for between $400 - $600, internet connection $13.99 a month for a DSL Extreme connection. If your business can't afford that it's going to fail, e-verification or not.
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Cost of business goes up, prices rise to reflect it, taxpayers suffer.
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Do you have any idea what they cost the taxpayers every just by being here? A small raise in price would be dirt cheap in comparison. No pro illegal argument can win on the numbers alone. They drain $45 Billion dollars from the economy each year with the money they wire out of the country alone. Add another $70 Billion in health, education and social services, take away the $12 Billion they pay in taxes and what do you get?
07-20-2008, 11:57 AM
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