As for my point, I'm not sure what it is. Maybe that our current crop of politicians are whores, whether they whore under the Republican label or they whore under the Democrat label.
As far as illegals and taxes, you know that form you fill out when you first get a job, the one where you specify how many allowances/exemptions you're supposed to get? The W4 form? The one right here?
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf
You can put *ANY* number of allowances/exemptions on that form you want. The main reason most people don't is that the IRS starts penalizing you if you owe them too much money for too many years in a row.
But, if you're illegal and not planning to file a tax return anyway..why not claim 10 exemptions? Hell, the more you claim, the less tax they withhold...
I learned all about this when I screwed up on the form and accidentally claimed an extra exemption/allowance. I couldn't figure out why I kept owing the IRS a lot (like over $1000) of money every tax season till I realized what happened. In December I filed another W4 with my employer, this time specifying additional money to withhold so I wouldn't owe money when I filed taxes for that year.
In January I filed a corrected W4 specifying the correct number of exemptions and no extra withholding.
But the point is, if an illegal doesn't wanna pay taxes, he don't have to if he knows how to work the system. And believe me, they do. If they spent half as much time improving themselves and their home countries as they do working the system here--we would all be much better off.