Disgracefully Idiotic?

Here… see if this leaves your mouth hanging wide open, in sheer disbelief in our government?

   I don’t know if you’ve heard… but, we’ve got some problems down at the border, and I ain’t talkin’ about Taco Bell! There are approximately 11.2 million illegal aliens that have made the jump into the United States of America (about 58% are Mexican). You may even know some of them. Roughly, 8 million of these individuals are here working illegally! How do they do it? Easy, every Jose, Juan, and their sister carry a fake Social Security card. You’re probably thinking, wouldn’t the federal government notice 8,000,000 fake Social Security numbers? And if you’re anything like me, you’re asking yourself… What happens to all the collected, but unfiled, because they’re illegal taxes?

   Well, according to a New York Times article back on April 6, 2005, “Starting in the late 1980s, the Social Security Administration received a flood of W-2 earnings reports with incorrect---sometimes simply fictitious---Social Security numbers. It stashed them in what it calls the 'earnings suspense file' in the hope that someday it would figure out whom they belonged to. The file has been mushrooming ever since: $189 billion worth of wages ended up recorded in the suspense file over the 1990s, two and a half times the amount of the 1980s.”

   In the last couple of decades, the file has continued to grow, on average, by more than $50 billion a year, generating $6 billion to $8 billion in Social Security tax revenue and way over $1.5 billion in Medicare taxes. That’s just a lot of Dumb!

    It gets worse! Have you ever heard of an ITIN (or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number)? It’s something the IRS dreamed up back in 1996. It’s a magical 9 digit number (suspiciously similar to a Social Security Number) that they freely hand out to Illegals.   In 2006 1.4 million people used an ITIN when filing taxes and federal tax law prohibits the IRS from sharing data with other government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, assuring unauthorized aliens that the tax information will be confidential and will not be used to initiate removal procedures. It’s great! They can use it to file their taxes from their illegal job and feel safe! Oh, and one last added bonus! You can use your ITIN to buy a house here even if you’re here illegally.

   Receiving money back in the form of a tax return and pilfering the American dream… if I didn’t know better, I’d say our government is encouraging our problems at the border. Oh well, don’t worry about it… don't forget to close your mouth. I gotta go, I think American Idol is on.