[extropy-chat] Why I am No Longer a Libertarian Either...

[Robert Lindauer]

Mike, I thought you were taking this elsewhere?


Robbie


Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>--- The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>...Illegals use
>>>public facilities paid for by tax-payers while they
>>>themselves do not pay taxes. ...
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>>This is a point I've often wondered about.  Mssr.
>>LaForge makes his assertion, but is it grounded in
>>fact or is he just making it up?  That is, Stuart, is
>>it something you **know** to be true or just something
>>you **suppose** to be true?  
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>It follows logically from the fact that illegals are paid under the
>table, do not report income or file income tax returns, and expatriate
>their money, minus living expenses, to their home countries (I have
>seen illegals captured up here in New England, from Mexico and points
>south, with upwards of $30k in their pockets). While illegals, if they
>rent validly constructed homes or apartments, will tend to pay property
>taxes, they also commit quite an amount of fraud. A former associate
>who runs financing at a Colorado car dealership has had lots of
>problems with illegals coming in with licenses issued them BY US
>STATES, bought cars, driven them to Mexico, and defaulted on the
>financing. Next time back they have a new name and a new set of id
>cards, all validly issued by US states who don't examine them closely
>enough or verify their authenticity with their home country.
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>TX, NM, AZ, CA, among others have all reported recently on the stranded
>health care costs imposed by illegals upon the states and non-profit hospitals.
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>Mike Lorrey
>Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
>"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
>It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
>                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
>Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com
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