{"id":243,"date":"2009-08-17T18:13:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T23:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betsybuchanan.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2009-08-17T18:13:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T23:13:20","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2009\/08\/17\/food-for-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You have 2 families&#8230;&#8221;Joe Legal&#8221; and &#8220;Jose Illegal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joe Legal&#8221; works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jose Illegal&#8221; also works in construction, has &#8220;NO&#8221; Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash &#8220;under the table&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal&#8230;$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year<\/p>\n<p>Now take 30% away for state &amp; federal tax<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal now has $31,231.00<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal&#8230;$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal pays no taxes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage<\/p>\n<p>$1000.00 per month<\/p>\n<p>$12,000.00 per year<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal now has $19,231.00<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics<\/p>\n<p>at a cost of $0.00 per year<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal pays for food<\/p>\n<p>$1,000.00 per month<\/p>\n<p>$12,000.00 per year<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal pays rent of<\/p>\n<p>$1,000.00 per month<\/p>\n<p>$12,000.00 per year<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal is now in the hole<\/p>\n<p>minus (-) $4,769.00<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal pays rent<\/p>\n<p>$500.00 per month<\/p>\n<p>$6,000.00 per year<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal still has $25,200.00<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Joe Legal&#8217;s and Jose Illegal&#8217;s children both attend the same school.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal pays for his children&#8217;s lunches while<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal&#8217;s children get a government sponsored lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Illegal&#8217;s children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal&#8217;s children go home.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The one thing not mentioned here is that since Jose Illegal has all that money left over, he sends a good share of it to Mexico to help support THEIR economy and legal citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California&#8230; You have 2 families&#8230;&#8221;Joe Legal&#8221; and &#8220;Jose Illegal&#8221;. Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California. &#8220;Joe Legal&#8221; works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2009\/08\/17\/food-for-thought\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Food For Thought&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,6,14,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-associates","category-business","category-educationschool","category-entertainment","category-in-the-news","category-opinion","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}