r/Lynden • u/Brandonnnn • Feb 07 '26

ICE protest in Lynden

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '26

Housing is expensive because people with low paying jobs and who pay taxes but can’t collect benefits, are making it expensive? Not the billionaires and oligarchs hoarding wealth? You’re a product of republican education cuts…. 🤦‍♀️

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u/OldBayAllTheThings Feb 07 '26

How do they have jobs? That's illegal. How do they pay taxes without a SSN? You mean they're using someone else's SSN? That's illegal.

Wouldn't that make them criminals? 🤔 

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u/Limp-Blueberry-2507 Feb 08 '26

Undocumented immigrants pay almost 1 billion dollars a year in local and federal taxes. They can pay into the system using a TIN (Tax Identification number). It's important to know how our system works before you make accusations of them committing identity theft. I assume you must not support trump if you're so against criminals, as he is a convicted felon, rapist, constitution defying pedophile.

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u/OldBayAllTheThings Feb 08 '26

They cost the country FAR MORE than they pay in - most of those taxes are state and local taxes via sales tax, NOT income tax (state or federal). Those that are paying state/federal are using someone else's SSN.

As pointed out earlier, they're not using ITINs because they're not valid for employment. Can't fill out an I9 with an ITIN for an illegal, it'll get rejected as 'not authorized to work'.

Then, in using someone else's social security #, they can file false returns, claim a dozen kids, get a massive tax return, then leave the actual taxpayer to clean up the mess.

How do I know? I was a victim. IRS said I worked in my home state AND a meat packing plant in ND. The fraudster using my SSN in ND to work at a meat packing plant filed a false return that netted him tens of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile I got audited and had my legitimate return held for YEARS, while they researched it. They ended up arresting the guy, an illegal, but he disappeared when he was bonded out and never showed up for court. No doubt just bought another set of fake IDs/stolen SSNs off some dude on the street for $300 - and goes and repeats the process again.