tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post8971023770255162660..comments2023-11-03T03:52:37.873-05:00Comments on Cognitive Dissidence: Woo Hoo! Party Like It's 1939!Somebody DO Something!http://www.blogger.com/profile/08717747685928127724noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-62955941787866297482017-03-20T10:24:46.964-05:002017-03-20T10:24:46.964-05:00Here is something to consider in discussing the da...Here is something to consider in discussing the dairy worker situation. When workers are illegal how do they do their payroll? You MUST have an SSN in order to withhold FICA taxes and do withholding. So, unless they have fake or borrowed SSNs you cant legally pay them much less cover them by statutoriallly required Workman's Comp.<br />When I investigated a non-farm case here where an illegal worker was killed I found that the contractor (Republican city alderman Mike Howe) was laundering his payroll through a fake sub-conctractor and evading all taxes and insurance and pocketing the difference.<br />If the percentages are as high as you report then the dairy industry and similar things are going on then its easy to see why they would be upset by this as the discount owed to tax and regulatory evasion is enormous!<br />While I agree that Trump's approach is wrong the irony of cross purposes between Trump and his business based support is rather stunning.<br />Then consider that with these same mega-dairies controlling most of the production today that even if organizations like Farm Bureau oppose him, the current rural Trump constituency who are the descendants of the now dispossessed family farmers whose operations were swallwed up by these employers and whose labor was replaced by the illegals have a very different view even after these mega-units install high capacity wells and pollute the shallow residential wells with their waste.<br />I have to admit a certain level of guilty pleasure in watching the developing chaos! :PBernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com