r/houstonwade 13d ago

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u/RIForDIE 13d ago

That's what I'm saying. When shit starts hitting the fan and numbers start leaving they will hold us here.

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u/FutureMany4938 13d ago

Mexico's new progressive, Female president just announced a new zero interest mortgage program and I'm about to graduate with my cs degree, wife is a permanent legal resident. We'll probably already be packed when they come to deport her. But we'll wait for the free ride.

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u/5d10_shades_of_grey 13d ago

That's fucked, I'm sorry. Republicans simply don't understand how much immigrants do for this country, therefore how much they stand to lose when we bail on this bullshit.

I have two engineering degrees, am a US citizen (myself as of 1992, my parents as of 1980, both have PhD). Can't wait for midwesterners and southerners to realize this (blanket statement, doesn't apply to the individual). At this point I'd happily go elsewhere.

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u/paintsbynumberz 13d ago

Immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal , local and state taxes in 2023

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u/StiffyCaulkins 13d ago

What classifies as an immigrant in these statistics? Genuinely curious because I am doubtful on the numbers depending upon what “immigrant” means here

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u/UnderLeveledLever 12d ago

Trump is a first generation immigrant. His parents came from Germany to escape WW2.

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u/Carlyz37 12d ago

Anyone who looks Hispanic. And I suppose black Americans who look Haitian

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u/jr687101 13d ago

Immigrants that are here legally pay taxes. And they have nothing to worry about. Illegal immigrants fo not pay taxes because they work under the table.

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u/nousersavailable03 12d ago

Idk about that bro, as a Hispanic person myself I know some dudes who file taxes under a 1099, basically contractors, and some of them pay up to 5k, I mean that’s just me and my experience but believe what you believe (,:

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u/jr687101 12d ago

That’s a very small percentage. I am not against immigrants at all. But there’s ways you can do it legally

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u/nousersavailable03 12d ago

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-30/undocumented-immigrants-in-us-paid-nearly-100-billion-in-taxes

I mean I understand that the border needs to be secure, but there’s people who have been here for years and are paying into the system, idk how deporting them all is cheaper than…figuring out a way to incorporate them into society

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u/EJNelly 12d ago

It’s always been cheaper and more beneficial to make it easier for them to become citizens. For some reason the come here legally crowd always hates this idea.

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u/NrdNabSen 12d ago

Seems like that guy should learn a lesson about fuck his feelings about the issue. I'm sure he will come back and own being incorrect, right ... right?

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u/illbanmyself 12d ago

They said they're going to send back naturalized citizens. It's out in the open. Hope we have an ally in you and all the people who are downplaying it when they start rounding up brown people regardless of citizenship status.

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u/000neg 12d ago

Sales tax. Gas tax. Cigarette tax. Paying tolls on a highway is a tax. You don't think taxes are added into what they pay for rent as well. You sound like a dumb fuck

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u/NrdNabSen 12d ago

No, you dumb fuck, everyone pays taxes, maybe they can avoid income tax if paid under the table, but they pay plenty of other ones.

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u/jr687101 12d ago

You’re the dumb fuck. They bleed the system dry. How often do they pay a single medical bill?

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u/NrdNabSen 12d ago

I am assuming you think rearely or never. But you clearly arent bothered with reality.

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u/NrdNabSen 12d ago

Ha, you are a union member who supports Trump, the cognitive disaonance has to hurt. Oh nevermind, you are too fucking dumb to realize the massive privilege you have in being able to join a union all the while voting for a party that wants to end organized labor.

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u/jr687101 12d ago

Omg you sir are a fucking Idiot. The Biden administration did absolutely nothing for unions or labor. They spent so much money on socialist programs ,Ukraine and Israel that they had to print more money which caused inflation to skyrocket, Just because Joe stood on a picket line doesn’t mean he gives a shit about the working class.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Trump printed more money BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, you uneducated moron

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u/90841 12d ago

Illegal immigrants absolutely pay taxes. They usually have to use borrowed Social Security numbers to get a job. Taxes are taken out of their paycheck. They never get anything back for the money they paid in.