Journal adzoox's Journal: How eBay, Flea Markets, & Latinos are hurting the economy 8
Now, let's look at the 3 of these observations together. eBay= no taxes. I believe I may be the only eBay seller on the planet that pays taxes based on my eBay sales and the only one that actually pays the quarterly sales tax if I collect it from an eBay buyer in my state. Back to topic: eBay = no tax revenue. At 15 billion in sales on eBay last year, that makes a lot of lost tax revenue. Next: flea markets - I doubt I would be far off to say that Yard sales, Flea Markets, Swap Meets, etc account for 100 billion in sales each year. (probably a lot more) Next: latinos - (couldn't find a coherent link to REAL figures) By estimates from the dozens of charts, graphs, and studies I searched through this morning - it is estimated that there are 45 million illegal mexicans in this country. Each one, doesn't pay income tax, doesn't pay property tax, and doesn't pay sales tax in the majority of circumstances. (It is sort of hush hush here that Mexican markets around my area don't charge fellow Latinos state sales tax) They also do not pay or collect tax at Flea Markets. My local flea market is made up of about 25% Latino seller. It is obvious they aren't tax paying citizens. They pretty much rule produce at all flea markets in my area (of which there are 6 big ones that I know of - two - the largest in the country)
I would estimate that there is at LEAST 150 Billion in lost revenue/taxpayer redistribution due to illegal immigrants.
Where this hurts the economy is the less people that pay taxes, and the more people depend on government social programs, the more the "true taxpayer" is going to have to start paying.
Taxes are too high now
If you can add any coherency or addition to this journal entry - out of all the entries I have here, this is the one I want you to post on.
Here is one source I used for information:
http://www.theistudio.com/whois_online.html
I tried to Google most of my statistics but a lot are filled with racist diatribe or statistical bias.
illegals (Score:1)
Re:illegals (Score:1)
I'd still prefer lower taxes for personal reasons, but also I don't believe that 536 elected individuals plus thousands more unaccountable beaurocrats spend money as prudentl
So what do we do about it? (Score:2)
We ship 'em back and, as l.b. pointed out, we lose the bottom of our labor pool. And even beyond that, if they're doing so well selling produce (as they also do here in NYC) part of that is probably a willingness to work longer and worse hours for less money. Things like sitting and cutting up mango at five in the morning so they can sell the resulting cointainers of fresh fruit for a buck each during morning rush.
We let them become lega
Re:So what do we do about it? (Score:2)
If the point is to maximize government revenue and we already know that it takes tens of billions of dollars PER YEAR just to seal off the obvious border stretches, then how does that solve the problem?
Border patrol costs how much? Walls how much? Aerostats, vehicles, blah, blah, blah.
We've got many thousands of miles of border, much of it deadly hot, brutally cold, or intermittantly both, and almost
Sales tax (Score:2)