bj229r,
Thanks for confirming what I said. They did not have false W2 forms. They had false Social Security numbers, but used a taxpayer identification number to file their taxes. The former is issued by the Social Security Administration, the latter is issued by the IRS.
They paid taxes through withholding, received a refund for the overpaid amount, the Social Security component was paid, but no benefit can ever be collected.
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I didn't allude to anything, xmarine, I said it. I also said that some areas have a disproportionate burden. I said that I didn't doubt California had such a such a large percentage of illegal alien prison population. I also said that poor people commit more crimes than middle income people. Who did you arrest more of, people without jobs or middle income and above people with jobs?
And why weren't they deported by the federal government? I said why also. People are complaining about the symptoms, not the disease. The symptoms are never going to go away until the disease of the dishonest class of businessmen and politicians are jailed. But that isn't going to happen. It's always about the money.
Let me tell you what local, county, state and national bureaucrats and politicians think about police, criminals and crime. They want crime, and they want criminals to be arrested over and over. Crime is an important industry that depends on criminals. It's just business and police are just low-cost machines who think they are serving their community, but in reality, they are revenue collectors and mining the raw material for the prison and crime industry. The crime industry, like any industry, is always looking for growth. It supports lawyers, judges, clerks, prison guards, bureaucrats and hundreds of contractors and vendor companies who spend lobbying money to ensure that the industry thrives. The more tax money spent on crime, the better the industry thrives.
"God help us all if there were no more criminals," said the lobbyist to the politician.
The politician nodded.
