RE: John Stossel special re-airing tonight

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 19:21:27 MDT


Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>> This is not new. Legal immigrants are not exempt from having social
>> security taken out of their paycheck. This means that they must pay into
>> the system, but they can't get anything out of the system. As far as I
>> know, it has always been thus. While citizens complain about supporting
>> immigrants, immigrants complain about being taxed to support the
citizens.
>> Other taxes on legal immigrants are similar. They must pay full value
into
>> the tax systems, but they cannot get full benefits as would a citizen.
>
>The more rules you pass on the conduct of club members and guests, the
higher
>membership fees rise as a result... if a guest wants to repeatedly enjoy
use of
>club grounds without becoming a member, they usually pay higher greens
fees.

Good analogy!



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