FCPS demographic changes are largest cost increase besides salary. explain it.

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The problem with illegals is that they are not paying taxes because they are working "under the table". They don't pay federal or state income taxes. Sure they pay sales taxes, but they are not exactly big spenders. They usually send a lot of money back home to other countries. They live on the cheap. If they live in an apartment at $500 a month for a room (going rate), that's only $6500 a year. The real estate tax on that room can't be more than $1000 (if that). The landlord has to make something on that room.


What a glamorous life--living with several people in a room, working several jobs, often the scut jobs no one wants to do...

I agree. It's horrible for them. The solutions are at much higher levels . . . the immigration issue has been ignored by Congress. Getting these people to be legal would be great for all concerned. As it is, they are exploited by people who are getting richer and richer. And the middle class is paying the bill. It's not sustainable. Hard reality.

They could be deported. That's hard reality too.

Then who would watch your children, wash your dishes, clean your offices and homes and do your landscaping. Be careful what you wish for.

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Yes, I don't hire illegals either. When you hire illegals, you are cheating the government out of taxes.

As a child of a naturalized citizen and having seen the hoop legal immigrants have to jump through to maintain their status, I agree with you 100%

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Then who would watch your children, wash your dishes, clean your offices and homes and do your landscaping. Be careful what you wish for.

There are people who watch their children and wash their dishes and mow their lawns. This is called the middle class. People in DC don't understand this. If you have plenty of money, you need to be hiring legally and paying fair wages with benefits. If you don't have enough money to hire legally, you don't have enough money to hire out "your work". Don't make the rest of us pay.

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Then who would watch your children, wash your dishes, clean your offices and homes and do your landscaping. Be careful what you wish for.

There are people who watch their children and wash their dishes and mow their lawns. This is called the middle class. People in DC don't understand this. If you have plenty of money, you need to be hiring legally and paying fair wages with benefits. If you don't have enough money to hire legally, you don't have enough money to hire out "your work". Don't make the rest of us pay.

Our landscaper is a college-educated individual who is almost certainly not an illegal immigrant. Same for our go-to contractor.

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Yes, I don't hire illegals either. When you hire illegals, you are cheating the government out of taxes.

+1. If my family is paying taxes, anyone we employ had better be paying them, too! Not to mention, there are plenty of people in this area who hold security clearances. For many of those workers, hiring an illegal immigrant and paying under the table would be grounds for immediate termination.

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Lots of contractors: lawn services, painters, etc. hire them. I would be the people who work on the garbage collection are not all documented.