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Originally Posted by Cicero

Most of the ones that used to work where I worked in the past aren't contributing because they can't. Their only documents are fake. This means that they got a hold of someone's legitimate record and are paying in under someone elses tax id. Or what they are giving is completely fake and giving out a random number. Most of them aren't dumb enough to do that. Then there are the ones working under the table. This makes statistics for the documented workers null and void. I used to go to work knowing that I didn't know any of the staffs real names. I am glad they weren't all the same name because that would have sucked.

I find working under an assumed name and number to be highly criminal because that is how I was raised. I can't tell you how much shit has been pulled that I have seen, but it's a lot. If we turned the tables and I started to do any of that, the authorities would be all over my ass for fraud. Being undocumented forces people to do criminal acts to try to be practical and get jobs, cars etc...

That puts people like me that have a responsibility to maintain the books when you have a boss with this kind of hiring practice in place, at odds. And you have several moral questions for yourself when you go home at night, after you find out exactly what you have been doing.

Gathering statistics using documents that are faked or don't exist is crazy-making. I really liked some of the people that were on my team that were "documented". Heh but after being there for awhile I asked and "documented" was true. Just not the whole truth. Sure I have documents. Not mine..but I have them. Well fuc**. Lots of the documented paid for them...not sure where or how.

It doesn't matter if they are contributing to the tax base under someone else's social security #. They pay income taxes into the system and they rarely if ever collect from any social programs (other than public education...which they help pay for). Those taxes are used just like anyone who is a natural born citizen, or a documented immigrant. These people never collect from social security either, yet they pay billions into it.

Working under an assumed name or number is most certainly not criminal. If you believe it to be, you must have been raise poorly.

I have a right to work anonymously. I have a right to travel anonymously. If I want to call myself Uncle Sam and work for lemonade rather than money, or I want to work for cash, I have a right to do so and no other person or government has any right to any of what I've earned.

Unlike you, I was raised to know that stealing what others earn is wrong. Income taxes are theft.