Unless the workers you are targeting commute daily from another state or country, they are paying for property taxes just like any other person who lives in Florida.
It just seems to me that the property taxes aren't as high when you're living many hours away from your family at 12 to a room in a disgusting rural migrant camp (property taxes in rural Florida counties and towns are negligible). Whatever these employers are paying their lettuce pickers, the taxes for the shack by the Okefenokee cucumber field aren't exactly the same as what the students pay in Fort Lauderdale at NOVA medical school, much less what the Church pays on the temple in downtown Orlando, and not anywhere near what the aggregate of retired wealthy New Yorkers pay in the Villages, which is in fact the real secret as to why Florida has still managed to not impose an income tax.
Is that the standard of living we're really trying to achieve here in the US? Do you think the Latinos won't resent being taken advantage of in this way? Do you think their descendants won't want reparations and revenge for centuries after this when they read about this in history books? We're repeating the same mistakes made by southern plantation owners in the antebellum south and our descendants will pay an even heavier price for it.
They are also paying sales taxes, the same as any other person who buys things in Florida.
In fact, because sales taxes are highly regressive, unless those workers had incomes above the average in Florida,
Sales taxes are much higher in urban Florida. So perhaps if you're talking about illegal immigrant hotel maids at Disney. Even so, employers shouldn't be getting a federal income tax break for choosing to hire illegal immigrants over legal American citizens.
As for health care, those workers are in exactly the same position as the legal citizens who perform the same work. They don't have employer-provided health insurance and are unlikely to be able to afford private health insurance.
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Perhaps they could afford private health insurance if they were paid better, especially if their employers were subject to the same Obamacare laws that employers of legal immigrants are subject to.
workers in Florida who aren't in the country legally aren't eligible for medicaid, although medicaid is paid by the federal government, not the state government.
No they're not eligible for medicaid. But they do still get sick. They do still drive drunk and get in car accidents. And it's illegal to refuse them at the emergency room. So who do you think pays for that, given we're all "interconnected."
So, it's not "evident" at all that the overall costs to the legal residents of Florida will go down as a result of DeSantis's 100% tax increase. Florida will lose the sales tax revenue from workers who move out of Florida.
We'll let's see how things work out. I'll be around in 10 years and hopefully you will be as well.
It's already short of teachers, so there's not likely much savings to be had there.
If a teacher leaves Florida because they can't tell the kids homosexual marriage is morally equivalent to heterosexual marriage or show them kiddie porn in the library, then good riddance. Perhaps the taxpayers in blue America will be willing to raise their salaries and hopefully Democrat voters will follow them out of the state in protest.
But somebody has to pay for that 100% tax, and most, if not all, of that burden is going to fall on Floridians.
Likewise, saying "without a doubt" doesn't make what follows true. The notion that the large spike in inflation was caused by the inflation reduction act is dubious, given the timing of the spike in crude oil prices combined with increased demand for petroleum products and the fact that the spike occurred around the world at about the same time. The current inflation rate in the U.S. is about half of that of England and the EU. I'll await your evidence that passing the inflation reduction act caused inflation to spike in England and the EU.
I blame COVID for much of the global economic meltdown. The scamdemic was a global effort by the CCP and globalist oligarchs to get rid of Trump and the populist movement that was taking hold in other parts of the world as well. When Democrats failed to remove Trump from office after the first impeachment they more than likely gave China the nod to go ahead and unleash COVID upon the world. It was a necessary sacrifice in their minds to hang on to power.
And you still are simply ignoring how cost shifting works in our economy. If farmers have to incur increased costs to replace labor, whether the replacement is more labor or capital), someone is going to pay for it. And that someone is going to include anyone who buys agricultural products from Florida. Whether the cause is increased prices of oranges or orange growers going out of business and reducing the supply of Florida oranges, the prices will rise.
At first, perhaps. Just as prices first rise when environmental regulations are imposed perhaps prices will rise as we "transition" to mechanization. But if Gunnar and Buttigeig get to assume that such new laws will accelerate invention and technological advancement, than why can't I? And your point doesn't answer the question of what the American people did before 1962 when we first adopted policies that fostered a tidal wave of illegal immigration. How were the apples picked or the drywall hung back then? Did your grandparents live in a house and eat apple pie? Or did all your excellent Washington state apples just rot on the vine before 1962?
But just so I'm clear here -- you're in favor of redistributing income using the tax system to raise the living standards of workers, right?
Clever, I admit. We're both engaged is selective accounting to an extent because it's impossible to trace every dollar. I still believe that it's the right of legal American citizens to decide just how much wealth is being generated by importing impoverished and desperate people to come and work for less. You can't just have a powerful Republican chamber of commerce saying, "These people do jobs that Americans won't do. We need them," or a powerful deep state saying, "We need their votes," and then refusing to enforce the law as it is on the books regardless of public opinion. And all this in spite of the enormous numbers of Americans who just can't find a job and require such a robust welfare state just to get by. I'm sorry but that just doesn't add up.
I have a friend I'm working with in Church. He had meningitis as a child and has some mild learning disabilities, but he's at least capable of making a sandwich or taking out the trash. His back gave out as a bricklayer. He gets a paltry $700-800 month in disability. I know this man wants to work. We've applied to job after job. I've even provided transportation for him back and forth to work. He was only making $10/hr at Subway. Apparently that still wasn't good enough of a deal for Subway. Small businessmen say they can't hire loyal people to work for $10/hr. I'm not sure I buy that anymore either.
And when the Confederates saw Jackson standing fearless like a stonewall, the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
