Comments on: Another time for a round of Good Idea/Bad Idea http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/05/05/another-time-for-a-round-of-good-ideabad-idea/ A future tense blog in a present tense world. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:44:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Gary http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/05/05/another-time-for-a-round-of-good-ideabad-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Gary Tue, 06 May 2008 02:57:09 +0000 http://www.colborne2016.com/?p=665#comment-146 I agree with your view on this, but I do see one small hitch in your argument. A large portion of illegal immigrants actually do pay taxes, under someone else's SSN. The use of faked or stolen SSNs is huge and growing every day. Illegal immigrants are one of the major customers of identity thieves. Just think about the recent crackdown on McDonalds in town. All of those people probably had federal deductions taken out of their paychecks. That said, I still don't think a non-citizen has the right to use government services for their gain. I think this because they are -->not citizens<--, not because they don't pay taxes. Even if it was proved every one of them paid taxes, they still would not deserve access to such a service. The only exceptions to that rule I would agree with would be defense if accused of a crime and basic health care. I agree with your view on this, but I do see one small hitch in your argument. A large portion of illegal immigrants actually do pay taxes, under someone else’s SSN. The use of faked or stolen SSNs is huge and growing every day. Illegal immigrants are one of the major customers of identity thieves. Just think about the recent crackdown on McDonalds in town. All of those people probably had federal deductions taken out of their paychecks.

That said, I still don’t think a non-citizen has the right to use government services for their gain. I think this because they are –>not citizens<–, not because they don’t pay taxes. Even if it was proved every one of them paid taxes, they still would not deserve access to such a service. The only exceptions to that rule I would agree with would be defense if accused of a crime and basic health care.

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