No Back Taxes in Immigration Action

For giggles I hopped into the FactCheck site. The first the article points out an error that I did not notice.

That was that the President claimed a step in the pathway to legal working status, euphemistically called “provisional unlawful presence waivers”, was a requirement to pay back taxes.

No Back Taxes in Immigration Action

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For immigrants who step forward, the procedure is to make sure that they “start paying their fair share of taxes” so they can “temporarily stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation for three years at a time,” says a White House fact sheet. The key word in there is “start.” There is no mechanism to require immigrants in the country illegally to pay any back taxes in order to obtain a three-year work authorization.

I have to admit that I was so pissed off with the whole issue that fine text study was an impossibility.

That if I had heard the words, I would have dismissed them instantly, as a lie.  A non-starter designed to soften the harsh reality that this is a simple heavy handed tactic with intent on increasing the Democratic voter base. Let the citizens think that part of the deal is more revenue, and then after the barn door is torn off, claim that collection is an impossibility.

A parallel to the selling of ACA, it was going to save citizens money, offering plausible explanations that work in the open market but never in government, then after passage, let the cost reveal itself.

Buy what Democrats offer and in the end you'll always learn the truth is what you feared.

Good site.