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ICANT
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Message 31 of 115 (405993)
06-15-2007 9:34 PM
Reply to: Message 24 by RAZD
06-15-2007 4:59 AM


Re-Immigration
Hi RAZD,
That is why a lottery is the bets way to select them. An arbitrary vote. (and immigration is different from asylum for political purposes). What we need are quotas for numbers of workers to come. It seems to me that if we have an illegal worker problem that the immigration quotas have been too restrictive: there is more work available than immigrants.
RAZD I kind of like your idea in the op but it would probably only lead to an apathy, and higher costs to tax payers.
I recently spent 15 years in a foreign country.
I went to the Cayman Islands in 1989 to work for a large Construction Co. I had to have police clearance, health certificate, and speak English. The company had to provide a place to live (that was inspected by gov.) They had to provide health insurance, A suitable wage, and a work permit from the government.
The permit cost $1250. It cost $500 for my wife to stay with me. If I would have had kids I would have had to pay $400 each per month for their schooling. The company had to provide government a deposit for plane fare in case I did something wrong and was deported.
The work permit had to be renewed every year.
In other words there is no way I could have cost the government one penny during my stay.
The Cayman government is not the only country in the world that uses this method.
Enjoy

"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

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Message 33 of 115 (406023)
06-16-2007 8:05 AM
Reply to: Message 32 by RAZD
06-16-2007 6:57 AM


Re: Re-Immigration
Did you pay income tax?
I paid income tax in the US.
Did your being there provide work for people in the Caymen Islands or were you taking work from them? And taking your salary out of their economy back here?
They do not have enough people to do the work. So I did not take work from anyone. Yes my salary except what I had to spend for groceries came back here.
Everyone there pays the same amount of tax. It is a 20% duty that is charged on every item that comes into the county and is then passed on to the consumers. I took my truck down and had to pay 27% duty on it plus license and inspection fee each year.
When you buy property you pay a 7% tax at purchase and then no property tax after that.
Why? I certainly don't see any relation between this claim and the following information. Work is part of the program, just as it is part of the "solution" to welfare reform of recent years, except for one difference: it provides the work as well.
There are states that are staggering under the expense of the illegal's that are drawing on the infurstructure. If the employer was responsible for those things there would be no problem.
The wages would be such our people would be willing to work, and the foreign workers would be paid a decent wage.
We would have to pay more for products. But the people in the states involved are paying the difference now.
Enjoy

"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

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