Perry on immigration

[SewTexas]

It still is unfair to me as I am an American and here legally as I was born here. And I still subsidize their tuition through federal money going to the various states for grants and such.

yeh it is, but it's also unfair to senior citizens who have to pay property taxes but their kids are out of school, it's unfair to young adults but they don't have any kids, it's unfair to homeschoolers and private schoolers who basically have to pay for school twice...

like I tell my kids, life is unfair.

[Bullwhip]

There parents don’t pay taxes.

I wanna know where they shop and live, I wanna shop and live there too! No sales taxes, no property taxes, how do the other parents pay for school?

Sales Tax, Tax on Gas and other such taxes, yes they pay. Income Tax, property tax - (which is where the school tax is) , no they pay no taxes. Work for cash means lower pay rate but no record of earnings.

No income tax in Texas. Everbody pays property tax no matter if they own or rent. Landlord don't pay it out of his own pocket just to for a favor to the renters you know.

Everbody who works a job pays income tax too, even if they use fake ID/SSN. That money don't pay for TX schools tho.

So Texas charges renters property tax or do you mean the landlord passes it on to the renters indirectly?

Property owners pay property tax, don't matter who lives there (or if it sits empty). Renters pay tax the same way they pay the bank note and any other bills that are included.

[tacticool]

Personally, I don't like the idea of laws penalizing children for their parents' bad choices.

I agree. If your parents embezzle a million dollars, you shouldn't be sent to prison or get a criminal record for something they did. On the other hand, you shouldn't get to keep the million dollars either.

I agree they shouldn't get to keep the ill gotten gains, but it looks like some others disagree. As long as they spend some of the ill gotten gains on things that are subject to sales tax, some others think that makes everything right.

[Katygunnut]

The media will cry and will feature story after story after story of 4 year old child being left behind as his mother is deported,

There's no law saying she can't take him with her.

That is true, and if under some strange circumstance I had to move to another country my kids would most assuardly be coming with me, but that is not the card that will be played in the media. It will be the mommy is being deported as baby cries.

They could also play the card of Mommy going to prison as baby cries. That happens daily somewhere in America. These are the kinds of things that happen when one breaks the law.

If the child is a US citizen, then they have the right to be here. They are also their parent's child, and the parent has the right to tell them that they are moving to a foreign country (in this case Mexico). No different than when a young Barack Hussein Obama was told by his mom that he was moving to Indonesia to live with his new step father.