Underground Businesses Put Americans Out of Work

by Carol in CA Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:30 pm

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Underground businesses is another reason there is less hiring of Americans for job. illegal aliens from various countries but mostly from Mexico start businesses here without a license, fictitious business name filing, do not have workman's comp for employees, pay them less and mostly in cash under the table.

Plus these underground businesses do not pay taxes, so that cities and states go broke because of a lack of tax money to pay for police, fire, road work and other things to keep a town or state going. Thus legit American businesses have to compete with cheap labor. Many American business men either go out of business because of the competition or business is so bad they are not hiring Americans. This is an older news article but worth reading as it has to do with why their are no jobs for Americans. This is one contractors story of how he is trying to fight this injustice.

================================================================================= Pool and Spa News Read One Man's Fight Against Underground Business. http://www.poolspanews.com/2010/072/072n_smith.html After introducing himself to the California Senate’s Labor Committee, Alan Smith produced a number of bids from his company. Each job had been lost to a contractor showing a workers’ compensation exemption, he explained to the assembled lawmakers.

The president of Alan Smith Pool Plastering in Orange, Calif., estimates that he’s already lost $1.5 million in business this year to the underground economy. “How do you run a plastering company with no employees?” Smith asked a day after his June 23 testimony highlighting the impact of unlicensed and illegitimate contractors. “We’re dying on the vine, and I have to come up here and beg [legislators] to enforce the law,” he added. Smith’s five-minute, off-the-cuff presentation before committee members preceded a meeting with the governor’s top policymakers to further promote AB 2770. This proposed legislation would establish standards that trigger an audit of wages, hours and working conditi

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Re: Underground Businesses Put Americans Out of Work

by Phillymg Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:16 pm

Tara suggested increasing the penalty on employers who hire illegal aliens to $75,000 per worker which is a good idea.

More money & energy needs to be put into enforcement even of existing laws where employers knowingly illegally hire people without legal SSNs. The employers drag their feet on sending in the names/SSNs for verification. By the time the SSNs come back as 'bad' the employer has already laid off the illegal workers who were only hired on a temp basis anyways. The employer then hires more illegals on a temp basis & the whole cycle starts over again.

Tho in the bigger picture I'm in favor of comprehensive immigration reform.....in the short run we gotta tighten up enforcement against employers. Course people will say 'like that's gonna happen.'

The *major* problem with illegal immigration is how local, state, & federal govts allow the illegal employers to hire people who have no legal SSNs. The govt turns a blind eye & the media enjoys scapegoating the illegal aliens as if it's their fault the millionaire company owners hire them.

If we don't crack down on the illegal employers now.....how the heck will we do it later after immigration reform passes??

Isn't there even one brave member of Congress who will step up & propose a bill increasing federal penalties on employers who hire illegals?? Not one?? Not a single one??

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Re: Underground Businesses Put Americans Out of Work

by Carol in CA Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:29 pm

The employers can get thousands of dollars in fines for each illegal they hire. But I do not know how much the current amount is. But through millions of illegals taking jobs away is why so many Americans are out of work. Plus legal American business are going out of business through unfair competition in the labor market. Thus they too cannot hire Americans so there goes more opportunities for the millions of unemployed in our country. It is also causing a lack of sufficient tax monies to keep our states and towns running. This is one of the reasons California is going broke.

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