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   Ross of Ottawa (ottaross@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 10:34:28 JST Ross of Ottawa

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   • Gabe Ortíz

   @tusk81 hmm, taxation without representation. I thought that was frowned upon and seen as a reason to force change in the past.

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 10:34:28 JST fu

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     • Gabe Ortíz
     @ottaross @tusk81 taxation work representation isn't any better
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     Gabe Ortíz (tusk81@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 10:34:29 JST Gabe Ortíz

     Undocumented workers pay an estimated $13 billion into Social Security annually—a fund they can never access unless they can adjust their immigration status. The Social Security Administration estimated in 2014 “that unauthorized workers have paid a whopping $100b into the fund over the past decade”: https://americasvoice.org/blog/on-tax-day-the-facts-speak-clearly-immigrant-workers-pay-billions-into-social-security-and-medicare-help-fund-public-schools-and-libraries-and-boost-our-economy/