Thread: KING OP-ED: AMERICAN JOBS SHOULD GO TO AMERICAN WORKERS

KING OP-ED: AMERICAN JOBS SHOULD GO TO AMERICAN WORKERS

States News Service
February 4, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C.

The following information was released by the office of Iowa Rep. Steve King:

By Rep. Steve King

Speaking about Americas unemployment problem on Nov. 2, President Obama expressed a desire for new ideas on how to create good-paying jobs.

The president stated that if somebody can show me a strategy that's going to work, then we are happy to consider it.

I have introduced legislation that the president should be happy to consider, right down to and including the bills title New IDEA.

On Sept. 16, I introduced H.R. 3580, the Illegal Deduction Elimination Act (New IDEA), which will immediately reduce Americas unemployment and result in the hiring of millions of unemployed Americans.

New IDEA will crack down on employers and illegal workers and level the playing field for law-abiding American employers and employees.

According to the Department of Labor, the December national unemployment rate was 10 percent and Iowas unemployment rate was 6.6 percent.

There are 15.3 million unemployed American citizens while the Pew Hispanic Center reports that 8 million illegal aliens hold American jobs.

In Iowa alone, there are 112,700 unemployed workers while 35,000 illegal aliens hold jobs.

It is inexcusable for American citizens and law-abiding immigrants to be jobless while law-breaking illegal aliens hold American jobs.

New IDEA clarifies that wages and benefits paid to illegal aliens are not deductible for federal income tax purposes.

So if employers hire illegal workers, the wages and benefits paid to illegal workers will be denied as a business expense, resulting in taxable income for employers.

E-Verify is an online government system that enables employers to determine whether an employee is eligible to work in the U.S. E-Verify is currently a voluntary program that by law can only be used on new hires.

New IDEA will make E-Verify permanent and authorize its use on all current and prospective employees.

Under New IDEA, employers that use E-Verify will have safe harbor.

By using E-Verify to check the legal status of new hires, employers will not be punished if they mistakenly hire an illegal alien.

Employers who fail to check their employees via E-Verify or ignore proof of an employee's illegal status will be subject to wage and benefit taxation, including interest and penalty on past taxes.

This system will level the playing field for employers that hire only legal workers, who are typically paid more than illegal workers.

Under New IDEA, if employers are paying illegal workers $10 per hour and an IRS audit uncovers the violations, the tax liability plus interest and penalty may then cost employers $16 per hour.

Removing the cost motivation associated with hiring illegal workers will result in millions of unemployed Americans going to work at newly vacated $10-per-hour jobs for pay in the $12- to $14-per-hour range, or more.

New IDEA requires the Internal Revenue Service to notify the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security of identity theft and immigration law violations.

It also requires government agencies to work in cooperation with each other to enforce immigration laws.

New IDEA will also be a revenue raiser for the IRS. The bill will result in the IRS collecting interest, penalties and taxes, and newly hired legal workers will pay taxes, unlike the illegal workers they replace.

President Obama and liberals in Congress continue to promote amnesty while overlooking the impact that illegal workers have on American unemployment.

Immigration laws protect American citizens, including legal immigrants, from losing jobs to those who have entered our country illegally.

We must enforce our immigration laws and allow a sustainable number of legal immigrants into the country each year.

Our immigration policy must protect the interests of Americans citizens and those who played by the rules to legally enter the United States.

Immigration law needs to be designed to enhance the economic, social and cultural well-being of the United States.

If President Obama is sincere about finding new and effective economic plans, he should immediately endorse New IDEA.

Enforcing and strengthening our current immigration laws, through programs such as New IDEA, will put many unemployed citizens back to work and protect American workers.

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There will always be unemployment as the natural result of technological innovation eliminating certain vocations. Ordinarily, however, Americans don't usually sue when this happens; they just move on to a new career.

The lawsuits from United Farmworkers and their legal advocates around 1980, started paving the way for a dependence upon an illegal immigrant workforce.

I do tend to agree with some of the "green" and "alternative" energy development, as I think this country needs some new exportable products.

Isn't mandatory use of E-Verify already included in the SAVE Act?

Originally Posted by vistalad

Isn't mandatory use of E-Verify already included in the SAVE Act?

Yes.

In fighting illegal hiring, the SAVE Act would:

* make E-Verify mandatory for all employers;
* increase monitoring of compliance of the E-Verify system;
* require notification of identity theft; and
* require information sharing between the Social Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service.
www.numbersusa.com

Tracking of the bill:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3308

I totally support this IDEA bill that would treat any payments to illegal aliens as income instead of expense. An illegal payment of business income is not now deductible, so illegal labor payments to illegal aliens shouldn't be either. A brilliant move by Steve King to clarify that fact with his IDEA bill.

Added to Homepage:
http://www.alipac.us/article-4903--0-0.html

Yes let's remove all illegals from this country and let all those employers who hire illegals that we will not tolerate that. It is time to stop illegal immigration. The only country that allows illegal immigration is the United States. Let's deport all illegals. And the Obama administration and the Democrats better listen to us, United States citizens. If they do not, we will have more Scott Browns in the near future.

I think our government is stalling as long as they can they know that anchor babies grow up and have more babies. Add that to all the ones still sneaking in then add that to the ungodly number of immigrants that are still being brought in every month. Our government could have prevented this yet they have allowed it to happen. Anything that will make a few more folks richer. Every single issue right now is nothing more than a diversion while the invasion continues.

Originally Posted by immigration2009

Yes let's remove all illegals from this country and let all those employers who hire illegals that we will not tolerate that. It is time to stop illegal immigration. The only country that allows illegal immigration is the United States. Let's deport all illegals. And the Obama administration and the Democrats better listen to us, United States citizens. If they do not, we will have more Scott Browns in the near future.

Absolutely! Every illegal alien whether they crossed the border illegally or crossed it legally and their visa expired, needs to be rounded up and deported with all their minor children. All of them. Americans didn't cause this problem, illegal aliens created the problem. Yes, they had unscrupulous employers here egging them on and treasonous politicians luring them, but every illegal alien who has entered our country or remained in our country in violation of US law knew exactly what they were doing.

Deport illegal aliens and prosecute Americans who aided, abetted, harbored, advocated on 501 C 3 tax exempt monies and resources, and hired them. We have laws that cover every aspect of these crimes. They are quite thorough, so enforce and apply them. If we need more laws to solve this problem like the SAVE ACT and the IDEA ACT, then lets pass them because these laws will help to prevent recidivism and the outrageous cost of multi-deportations as will securing the borders and building the wall.

Every Sheriff, Municipal Police ad State Patrol Office need to STOP chasing Americans using drugs and start chasing illegal aliens.