Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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And it is perfectly legal to pay employees in cash, as long you comply with all the reporting, withholding etc requirements.
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Only low precentage of ILLEGALs work. Government has system for non residents working it call green cards. No green card illegal entry. |
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And... I am certain that the no environmental controls "is" was written the way it should have been as there is a presumed antecedent phrase... (A policy of ) no environmental controls is coming.
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A little help please. Google has failed to tell me what USCC = 9 might mean
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Thank you, that was a typo. Should read USSC=9. The United States Supreme Court should be codified to be made up of 9 members. No stacking of the court by increasing the number of justices so one side or the other can appoint a new majority by stacking it with new justices of their preference. I will attempt to go back and fix the original post.
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Now to your other sentence. I notice you didn't have a link for "only a low % of illegals work" because that is nonsense.
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OK, the majority of employers who pay their employees in cash are violating the tax laws.
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........Obviously China and many other countries, are NOT friends of the US. WE have basically, for about 60 years, FUNDED their industrial and military EXPANSION. Today, they threaten the US and align with Russia. They have greater influence in Africa than the US. And are outmaneuvering us in other areas of the world (and SPACE). We should NEVER have funded them and built them up. So, what to do now? I would suggest bringing back SOME manufacturing jobs. And buying products from countries that LIKE the US. Those may be dwindling, but we still have England, Canada, Australia, Finland, and Sweden on our side. Germany and France are having their own problems. So overall, I would be ANTI outsourcing to unfriendly countries and PRO IN-sourcing within the US. |
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Chinese labor, and Vietnam, and Cambodia, and almost any other nation is cheaper than US labor. We all know that and understand why a US manufacturer would use foreign factories to make products. The question becomes what if anything should be our policy. Should the US accept that we are happy to have others do the work as it saves us money or should we insist that we need to have stuff made here even if it costs a whole lot more to do it that way. Don't forget that other nations will watch what we do and react. We could tell Maytag that our government will subsidize the building of a nice new washing machine factory. Tax abatements, new roads, even use Army labor to build the facility if you want to go all out. But next, where does Maytag get the metal to make the machine? Buy it only from US Steel? What if it is cheaper to buy Steel from outside the US and ship it here (only cheaper because the cost of labor and materials to make that steel was cheaper abroad). Do you now say all the raw materials must be from the US? Only use natural gas that was drilled here, only use iron ore that was mined here, it gets very complex. But now you have a washing machine that costs 4,000 dollars where the same machine from China was 1000. So you slap an import tax of 3000 on the Chinese machine and we all happily buy made in America. Or do we? No we make our old machine last longer which makes Maytag less profitable than projected, so we have to prop it up to keep it in business. Meanwhile China is not happy they are not selling us washing machines because we slapped a tax on it.. So they retaliate and refuse to buy our products.. and we sell a lot of stuff to China. In 2023 China bought 165 Billion dollars of US products. Keep in mind what China buys from us they can get elsewhere. Google Soybean exports to China to read about how this works in the real world. We put a tariff on Chinese materials and they retaliated against our soybeans and other items . This caused us to lose export income to such a degree that the US taxpayers ended up bailing out soybean and other farmers over 27 Billion Dollars through Feb 2020 You say, but look how the cost of soybeans dropped as the farmers had to sell them and didn't have the Chinese market. You're forgetting that you are also paying the taxes to the government they are passing on to the farmers. You are losing money here, not saving. So obviously we should therefore cancel our tariffs on Chinese steel so they cancel the soybean retaliation. Not so simple. We don't want to depend on Chinese steel and deem it, correctly, as a vital industry. And no politician wants to see those TV ads about how he is soft on China because it is too complex to expect the public to follow all the reasoning. China bashing is a favorite tactic even in this thread.
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