Crazy Immigration Ideas

Since nobody is talking about illegal immigration today, I thought I would talk about it.Millions flow through our borders illegally and all that we seem to do is show a token resistance.

At the root of this problem is basically the minimum wage law. If any citizen agrees to take any job with any company that pays less than minimum wage, that citizen can essentially go and tell on that company and get all back wages and that company would be fined. It does not matter the reason, even if working at less than minimum wage would mean having a job or not having a job.

However, if a company hires an illegal alien, that company may pay that illegal alien without worry that the illegal employee will eventually go tell on them. The illegal alien has no rights under the minimum wage law. If that employee rats out his company, he will be deported. However, the illegal alien benefits because he still makes more money here in the U.S. that he would have in his home country.

When it is said that illegal aliens come to this country and do the work that Americans won't do, it's not quite true. Americans just won't do the work at the price that illegal aliens will. Americans generally won't work for less that minimum wage while illegal aliens can and do. Unfortunately, this puts a huge burden on our society.

We could do something crazy like enforce our immigration laws to a greater extent, but that could get costly, and what enforcement we do, does not seem that effective. We could just let everyone in that wanted to come in and give them legal status. We would thus solve illegal immigration by simply making it all legal. This however could have some dire societal consequences.

What I believe we should do is allow more folks to come in legally. Those that are allowed to come it would then be subject to an immigrant tax. Yes, we should just tax them. We should also force immigrants to participate in Obama-care. They should provide proof that they have at least a high deductible insurance plan, much like the one I have,  or be taxed in the amount it would cost for an insurance plan. We should then use the revenues generated from those taxes to better combat illegal immigration, drug trafficking along the border and crack down on the companies that violate immigration laws. Companies should be required to pay these immigrant workers at least the minimum wage. We should also have some kind of verification system that the Senate wanted to pass during the Bush era as part of their immigration package.

Therefore, I would propose a more tax and regulate kind of immigration plan and less of a prohibition type of plan. I understand this plan would be generally hated by all, but I think it would work much better than our current system, which only benefits the companies that break the law.