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[–] SkinnyFat 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I loathe anti intellectual "immigrants" too, but you're pinning the blame on what is essentially human cattle when you should blame big companies.

They make mad money off you and can lower your salary when you have to compete with unqualified labor that lives in parallel societies where they don't pay taxes.

The taxes is not the problem here, it's you taxing the wrong people. Tax the rich.

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[–] Carsandsarcasm 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Companies undercutting labour is a real thing, but I disagree that more taxation is the solution. For one thing, when you tax big companies, they pass it onto the consumer and so it's the middle class that actually ends-up paying that tax. The solution to these problems isn't to punish the crime, it's to remove the incentive to commit the crime. For example, if native workers weren't paying tax either, then there is no benefit from hiring foreign workers. I would even go the other way and suggest something like a tax break from hiring native workers. Turn the system on its head and undercut the foreign workers. You need to find ways to work within the forces of the free market and incentivise rather than force people to comply. Heavy-handed measures like more tax and more laws just make companies more creative about getting around them.