- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.org
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.org
The White House statement comes after a week of frantic negotiations in the Senate.
President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill to address the immigration crisis at the nation’s southern border, saying he would shut down the border the day the bill became law.
“What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” Biden said in a statement. “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”
Biden’s Friday evening statement resembles a ramping up in rhetoric for the administration, placing the president philosophically in the camp arguing that the border may hit a point where closure is needed. The White House’s decision to have Biden weigh in also speaks to the delicate nature of the dealmaking, and the urgency facing his administration to take action on the border — particularly during an election year, when Republicans have used the issue to rally their base.
The president is also daring Republicans to reject the deal as it faces a make-or-break moment amid GOP fissures.
They pay sales taxes, sure. But they don’t pay income or property taxes, not without an SSN. (Texas does not have an income tax, but has property taxes. The Feds have an income tax. Don’t be pedantic)
Sorry… so you’re blaming immigrants for the fact that Texas’ tax regulations are severely fucked up?
Maybe Texas shouldn’t cater so much of their tax code to rich people? Shouldn’t that be the issue?
How is having property tax but not income tax fucked up? How does it cater to rich people, any more than having income tax?
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Texas-income-tax-property-laws-business-owners-16610385.php
https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/texas-wealth-tax-ban-was-a-mistake-other-states-shouldnt-repeat
https://itep.org/whopays/texas/
But sure, it’s immigrants that are the tax burden.
Odd that there was no response to this.
Undocumented immigrants pay income tax if they use someone else’s SSN or even without an SSN by using an ITIN
So you’re suggesting that illegal immigrants should steal identities to pay taxes?
No bud, we’re suggesting that they already do, because they’re given no other option.
Given no other option because they illegally immigrated
No, he’s suggesting that your original statement (the one actually being discussed) is wrong. No one suggested that immigrants SHOULD do anything, especially identity theft. Your whataboutism has no power here. Stop embarrassing yourself.
How exactly are you proposing that these people don’t pay property tax?
I would also wager that the amount of unreported tip income is just as large a problem as undocumented workers from a tax standpoint.