Dependent Claws

January 30th, 2008 at 04:05pm Michael Conniff 2

A listener writes the Con Man:

One of the ruses employed by in-the-know illegals (and they are as a group surprisingly "in the know") is to claim a large number of dependents because this increases the net size of their weekly paycheck. This works well for them insamuch as they often have no intent whatsoever to ever file an income tax return because it is their plan to have moved on to another employer, and another, and each and every time they arrange to have the least amount of money deducted from their checks....after all when tax time comes, they don't care that their single status would require that they make up the less than appropriately withheld difference...they won't be filing or paying taxes anyway. In other words, the only shot that the government gets at their income is through the deductions that come in for each pay period, and this little maneuver has side stepped that access to those taxes rightfully due from the illegal.

This strategy allows the illegal to get his hands on a little bit (sometimes more than just a "little") of extra cash at paycheck time, which will often find its' way back to Mexico via a Money-Gram or whatever.

This elementary trick along with a number of other strategies, not the least which is the fact that many of these folks live twenty or twenty-five to a house that might otherwise hold at the most perhaps six and more often only four or five, all help to reduce the individual overhead of each illegal, and in part allow working at rates that just won't work for the otherwise "average" citizen.

After all, I could probably house fifty people in my house, if I wanted or needed to help out with my own overhead at the expense of what I consider to be a "civilized" lifestyle. In fact when I consider the size of my latest property tax bill, the prospect has some merit, given that I were willing to surrender what I feel is my own modest attempt at living out the "American Dream." On top of that, I suspect my neighbors would all suffer coronaries should I opt for that approach, not to mention that Pitkin County would more than likely jump on my case as well. But of course, not-to-worry if Carbondale just splits at the seams with over utilized housing (just for an instance of comparison)....what the hell, it's only Carbondale.

Love but no kisses....

Entry Filed under: Politics, Immigration, El Jebel, Carbondale, Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Con Games, Business, Pitkin County, Garfield County, The West, Parachute, Eagle County, United Post

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1. Alex Damaso | January 31st, 2008 at 2:13 pm

About four years ago I was approached by a person
-whom I assume was an illegal immigrant - with an I.R.S letter which contents he asked me to translate for him. The letter basically was an attempt to obtain a valid social security number from this person because according to the letter over the years they had withheld from this person's pay checks about $18,000.00 and were unable to credit this persons social security account number because the said number was invalid. And it's only logical to assume that this was not isolated case. Illegal immigrants do claim an averge of about 7 dependents per person but the I.R.S still keeps a good portion of these withholdings because as the author of this letter wrote they typically never file an income tax return. Having said that, there is no doubt that illigal immigrants don't pay there fair share of taxes and the rest of us get stuck with the bill. That is why it makes sense to implement a guest worker program and have all these folks pay more appropriate taxes.

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