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Originally Posted by Keith
So if you're sending money to Mexico, which was already taxed, we tax it again?
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Who says all of it is taxed? There are over 15 million illegal aliens in the U.S., with the vast majority working somehow to make a living. If someone is working illegally in the U.S., the only taxes they would pay would be consumption taxes, sales taxes, VAT, etc. No income taxes. Probably no property or capital gains taxes because it would be rare that they would invest in fixed or long-term assets. Sending money back to their families abroad only costs what the transfer service would charge them, and the service would pay taxes on their profits (or a fraction of a fraction of what money is sent out).
Tax it. That's what Texas does. We have no personal income tax and a maximum 1.5% corporate income tax. We get all of our funding from property and consumption taxes. If you save your money, you pay no taxes. But if you spend it, you pay a sales tax. It doesn't matter if you are Texan, a U.S. citizen, a tourist, or an illegal immigrant. It also doesn't matter if you earned the money waiting tables, selling drugs, working illegally, or performing surgery in a hospital; everybody pays the same %. The more expensive shit you buy, the more taxes you pay.