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God Save the Queen wrote:

Ive got a bunch of illegal immigrants working on replacing my roof right now.  All you hear in my house are the sounds of hammers and saws.

If the company has wets working their workers comp will not cover them if they fall through and get hurt.
Did you ask the contractor to provide proof of workers comp?
Or, if you are a renter, get some water balloons and pelt them off.

lol mexicans.

God Save the Queen wrote:

renting out one of the houses my mom owns.  she hired them.  they did a great job on the neighbors place.  she had a ton of estimates from reputable places.  Home depot was going to charge 20,000 plus.  some italian dude 14k, not including materials.  these guys are charging much less.

People like your mom make it damn hard for a guy like me to run a legitimate business bro.
The first two quotes are likely from guys with GL policies, auto insurance and workers comp. They probably even woulda pulled a permit.

But no, people keep hiring illegal alien run businesses where the owners don't have a drivers license let alone a contractor or a business license, and then say the legit contractors shouldn't have boughten houses they can't afford.

I know what I'm talking about.

It's a death spiral we are in.

God Save the Queen wrote:

didnt you hire illegals as your labor force for a time?


there is a huge difference between 14 thousand dollars and 8 thousand.

right. It's the difference between having workers comp and general liability insurance.

God Save the Queen wrote:

but did you not hire illegals as employees?

Sure. Do you not see the difference between hiring a legitimate company that has all the insurances in place and hiring bogus companies that pay nothing but sales tax on the materials they purchase?

Look at it this way; Juan falls off and gets hurt. Your mother will be liable for the medical bills and punative damages that will surely come because she did not insist the company have a workers comp policy.

My wets all had payroll taxes withheld. The government issued them a ITIN number so that they could get their tax returns.

I am now technically out of business and forced into the underground economy, like the wets. Is that suitable punishment for never being able to hire crackers?

God Save the Queen wrote:

the same reason you hired illegals is the same reason my mom did.  the bottom line.  if anything, its the business that makes it a habit to hire illegal labor thats the problem, not the consumer.

Riiiiight.

Our soldiers should be on the border and in the streets rounding them and the politicians who let it get this far out of control, not in Iraq.

Don't you get it?

They have SS numbers and they get taxes withheld.

ATG wrote:

God Save the Queen wrote:

the same reason you hired illegals is the same reason my mom did.  the bottom line.  if anything, its the business that makes it a habit to hire illegal labor thats the problem, not the consumer.

Riiiiight.

Our soldiers should be on the border and in the streets rounding them and the politicians who let it get this far out of control, not in Iraq.

Don't you get it?

They have SS numbers and they get taxes withheld.

are they legal?

God Save the Queen wrote:

ATG wrote:

God Save the Queen wrote:

the same reason you hired illegals is the same reason my mom did.  the bottom line.  if anything, its the business that makes it a habit to hire illegal labor thats the problem, not the consumer.

Riiiiight.

Our soldiers should be on the border and in the streets rounding them and the politicians who let it get this far out of control, not in Iraq.

Don't you get it?

They have SS numbers and they get taxes withheld.

are they legal?

They are not illegal if the have a tax ID number that is issued by the government.

edit: Which ATG said. If the workers your mom has doing the roof right now don't have a contractors lic# which is req. by law in CA, then she is liable for anything that happens to one of them.

Last edited by SgtHeihn (2008-07-23 12:18:31)

Ryan wrote:

Bennet.