Saturday, July 28, 2012

How illegal immigrants affect the U.S. economy!

Washington Post ^ | July 27, 2012 | Letters to the Editor viva Washington Post

Steve Drake, Silver Spring

Presumably the remittance money mentioned in the article on Mexican migrants is lost not only to the U.S. economy but also to the Treasury; there must be a lot of unpaid income taxes in that $23 billion sent to Mexico last year.
The United States should do what Oklahoma does: Set a fee of 1 percent (to be credited against its income tax) for all remittances wired from that state to anywhere in the world. If implemented on a national level, that fee would recapture almost a quarter-billion dollars a year to help with our deficits, and it would cost virtually nothing to any American voter.
Western Union might howl to the high heavens, but the fee would be good for the rest of us.
David North, Washington
The writer is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies.

The Post should have restrained itself from placing a madonna-and-child-like photo of a Hispanic immigrant on its front page to illustrate Baltimore’s misguided efforts to restore its population [“Baltimore’s hope: Immigrants,” July 25]. Baltimore’s leaders have not only “adjusted” to having non-English-speaking immigrants in their midst but have embarked, at taxpayers’ expense, on a social experiment that is doomed to failure.
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