There's a new bill making the rounds in Congress lately. The IDEA Act.
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New IDEA (HR-3720) states explicitly that wages and benefits paid to illegals are not tax deductible. It gives employers ?safe harbor? if they use the Internet-based E-Verify program to verify legal status during their hiring process, but it does not require them to do so. During a normal audit, the IRS would run employees? I-9 identification information through the E-Verify program; whenever a worker could not be verified as a lawful employee, the IRS would not allow the deduction of that employee?s wages and benefits as a business expense. This would be, in effect, a tax or penalty on the employment of illegal immigrants. For example, a $10-per-hour illegal employee would cost $16 an hour without the normal tax deductions. With a six-year accumulated statute of limitations, employers will calculate the inevitability of an eventual audit and use E-Verify to clean up their work forces, whether abruptly or incrementally.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...dea-steve-king
This puts economic pressure on EMPLOYERS instead of focusing solely on supply. What do you think? Better way to deal with illegal immigration or just another FAILED EXPERIMENT?