Dannon's Journal: Did you know...

...that under the immigration bill that the House just rejected from the Senate, that illegal immigrants would have been allowed to pay just 3 out of 5 years of back taxes. And it's up to the illegal immigrant to pick and choose which 3 years. Consider, also, that these are 3 years of work that's not in any corporate records, not in any tax records, and if they happen to "fudge" a bit (gee, fudging on taxes, here in America?), the burden of proof is on the IRS.

Again, another bill that deserves to go down in flames. Don't get me wrong, I hate our system of taxation. But if any American citizen through a simple error of math misses paying so much as a dime in one year, even if they've never broken a single non-tax law in their life, that person's gonna lose their firstborn before the IRS is gonna let them go.

Anyway, it's my observation that one of the reasons illegal labor is such a problem is that our tax code punishes you if you don't break the law. With the myriad of taxes and government-mandated expenses on legal labor, some jobs are just not worth the minimum expense to employ someone for an hour.

If only there were a better way.....