NY drivers license

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Perry Winkle

Right. Imagine you're a businessman that runs a lawn service firm. You can't get the labor you need, so you pick up undocumented migrants for less pay than the citizens you can't find to work for you.

If you're dumb or in dire need, you let these unlicensed drivers operate your equipment (e.g. driving a truck to a job-site). You eat the costs of any accident: equipment replacement, increased insurance costs, et cetera.

If these people could be licensed then any accident is covered by insurance, and your income goes up because you aren't losing so much money to equipment replacement (you might lose time and jobs, too, because you can't afford to replace all of the equipment). This extra revenue is then taxed by the government, and the rest of the community benefits (or wherever the taxes go).

To many false assumptions. This is the list of false assumptions:
1. You let these unlicensed drivers operate your equipment and they have accidents that affect your bottom line of profit. There is no evidence to support that notion, or that there is a rash of such situations that this is the norm.
2. If these people could be licensed then any accident is covered by insurance, and your income goes up because you aren't losing so much money to equipment replacement Part of the reason this is false is contained in #1. There is no evidence to support the notion that by giving a license to undocumented workers is going to ensure that employers are going to suddenly cover them for insurance and let them drive more. There is no evidence to support the notion that employers are losing money due to undocumented workers wrecking equipment or destroying any equipment that would need to be replaced and that such actions are costing employers huge amounts of money.
3. This extra revenue is then taxed by the government, and the rest of the community benefits (or wherever the taxes go). There is no evidence to support that because undocumented workers get a drivers license that their pay will suddenly become taxed or that any such revenue would be realized by the public.

So basically everything you stated as an example is total bullshit.