tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post116127577647062182..comments2008-08-30T03:33:23.214-07:00Victoria Tafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566635810544426855noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161741331070141282006-10-24T18:55:00.000-07:002006-10-24T18:55:00.000-07:002006-10-24T18:55:00.000-07:00

Victoria; you made no attempt to answer my questions. Western Union is likely paying taxes on the profit they make, by charging huge amounts for these immigrants to send their hard earned money home. So there is some tax being paid.Personally, I am a proponent of the Federal Reserve’s plan to extend banking services to immigrants (legal or illegal) making it cheaper and safer for them to send

whateverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090970905053451038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161708984081488072006-10-24T09:56:00.000-07:002006-10-24T09:56:00.000-07:002006-10-24T09:56:00.000-07:00

Whatever:You're kidding, right? You must be new to this issue because what you said doesn't pass the laugh test. Remittances have been a huge issue for years. On one hand they help those family members buy property et al but on the other hand they send mostly untaxed money out of the country to benefit another country. I think we ought to tax the heck out of those remittances.

Victoria Tafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566635810544426855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161652972010928592006-10-23T18:22:00.000-07:002006-10-23T18:22:00.000-07:002006-10-23T18:22:00.000-07:00

Are you suggesting that there is not a logical reason for a legal citizen to send their money to family members living outside the US; and that there is a logical reason for an illegal immigrant to send their money home to their families? Is this is the sort of logic you are using to draw the conclusion that most of the money, being sent to Mexico and Central America, is being sent by Illegal (

whateverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090970905053451038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161627175106651642006-10-23T11:12:00.000-07:002006-10-23T11:12:00.000-07:002006-10-23T11:12:00.000-07:00

Why would people who claim the US as their home and are citizens send most of their money to Mexico and Central America? In fact, it's clear from additional stories that it IS the illegal alien sending this money back.

Victoria Tafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566635810544426855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161471940362271792006-10-21T16:05:00.000-07:002006-10-21T16:05:00.000-07:002006-10-21T16:05:00.000-07:00

The socialist nonsense goes on, no matter how often it fails.....so sad, so stupid.

BEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562469498541438904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161463050810926922006-10-21T13:37:00.000-07:002006-10-21T13:37:00.000-07:002006-10-21T13:37:00.000-07:00

We can significantly cut down on illegal immigration by making it easier to immigrate legally. I am for making it much easier to immigrate to this country legally, if the immigrant can find a job and is not considered a security risk. However, any time an employed person needs a subsidy (either via charity or government subsidy program) the subsidy is indirectly subsidizing the company (

whateverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090970905053451038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161460922353226222006-10-21T13:02:00.000-07:002006-10-21T13:02:00.000-07:002006-10-21T13:02:00.000-07:00

Lew Waters said..."Why does it matter more if a corporation operating under NAFTA sends $20 billion overseas, but possible illegals sending upwards of $45 billion overseas isn't a concern?"My response:It matters to me if the corporation got a tax break which was designed to help create more US jobs, and the company either does not create more jobs, or creates low paying jobs while eliminating

whateverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090970905053451038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161405305785372122006-10-20T21:35:00.000-07:002006-10-20T21:35:00.000-07:002006-10-20T21:35:00.000-07:00

Ms westsidedavid, wapo will never use the word illegal re aliens because they would then be admitting that such concepts exist, causing their heads to explode. Your opinion that the presence of criminals is necessary to our economy is ludicrous. Surely, you would agree that such a construct should be tested. Let's tax the here-to-fore untaxed flow of money, eliminate social services to illegal

BEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562469498541438904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161404281999643092006-10-20T21:18:00.000-07:002006-10-20T21:18:00.000-07:002006-10-20T21:18:00.000-07:00

David, haven't you noticed that within our lamestream media, it isn't in favor to refer to illegal immigrants as "illegals?"You must ask yourself, if someone immigrates here to live and become a legal citizen, why the need to send that much money back to their original country when they could better use it here caring for themselves and their family that would assumably be here with them also

Lew Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06422249750094117697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161396040022671172006-10-20T19:00:00.000-07:002006-10-20T19:00:00.000-07:002006-10-20T19:00:00.000-07:00

The best solution to illegal immigration is improved economies and opportunities in the countries the people are immigrating from.It makes me feel selfish when I think we should not let a person cross a national border to find a way to support their family. I don't care if people immigrating here, are sending significant amounts of their earned money home. I do care that there are large

whateverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090970905053451038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16945570.post-1161377849609711372006-10-20T13:57:00.000-07:002006-10-20T13:57:00.000-07:002006-10-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

Ms Taft:I would encourage you to re-read the Washington Post article, because you have badly mischaracterized what it says. The article nowhere mentions illegal immigrants. It talks of immigrants, many of whom are here legally, their presence being necessary for sustaining operations like farms and factories, doing the bottom of the heap manual jobs that non-immigrants often will do only with

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