healthmyths
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No, you're not comparing equivalents. If there was a way to single out remittances of money earned in the US by illegal workers from all other monies being sent, it could work, but there isn't. Moreover, it's just not wire transfers. People send money to each other with a variety of internet tools like pay pal. "The Wall" is just a prop, an illusion, to show you something is easily obtainable without compromise. It's not unlike Bernies "free college" crap.Itwi
lt will only stop illegal aliens from sending money.There are so many ways to move money . You'd basically have to declare Mexico a terror state and force all the banks to nod do biz wh them.
And stopping Americans from sending money to their poor relatives in Mexico is another great way to win the Latino vote ! Lol!
How would u know if it's a transfer by an illegal?
Wouldn't make a difference. It is a tax on money going to Mexico and other central american countries.
Besides it is NOT stopping the transfers, it is a TAX just like Obamacare right now taxes tanning salons 10% because tanning causes cancer!
Which I'm sure you were unaware that was happening!
The measure, a small provision buried in the Affordable Care Act, had two goals: to make a dent in the reform bill's $940 billion price tag and to discourage indoor tanning for health reasons. The risk of melanoma -- one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer -- increases by 75% when people begin tanning before the age of 35, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
When the tax was implemented in 2010, the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation projected that it would raise $200 million in 2011 fiscal year and around $2.7 billion by 2019. However, the IRS only collected $36.6 million in the first half of the 2011 fiscal year, according to the Treasury's inspector general for tax administration.
Obamacare's 'tanning tax' is here to stay
It is a commodity. Like bread. Or tanning salons. You have to pay a tax whether you are illegal or not when you buy and they don't ask are you illegal or not?
And of course the payments through paypal would be taxed if sent to Mexico. Not an issue.
We do that now.
An illegal buys a gallon of gas and pays a tax. OK.