Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Posted September 20, 2006 - Butch Owen Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:39 PM OT: Taxes vs Immigration Hi Lynn, John .. other good folks .. I owned a foreign Invested (American) owned Turkish company and paid taxes in Turkey from 1995 to 2005 .. lots of taxes. However, I had ABSOLUTELY NO right to free medical care under their social security system. The reason for this was .. I was not a Turk and had not applied for and been approved for Turkish citizenship. I had a work permit .. that's all. I expect that might be the case in most countries. Butch > If undocumented means Illeagal, what kind of medical care could > we expect in their country??? Lynn > > By saying Undocumented are you really saying Illegal? Nowhere in > the definition of Illegal do you find the term undoucmented. And if > undocumented is an illegal act, well I would say stablilize the > person in need and send him/her back to their home country. The > fact that you pay taxes wile working in a country illegally without > any benefits is the cost of being an illegal. John Quote
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Posted September 21, 2006 Hi Lynn, John .. other good folks .. I owned a foreign Invested (American) owned Turkish company and paid taxes in Turkey from 1995 to 2005 .. lots of taxes. However, I had ABSOLUTELY NO right to free medical care under their social security system. The reason for this was .. I was not a Turk and had not applied for and been approved for Turkish citizenship. I had a work permit .. that's all. I expect that might be the case in most countries. Butch > If undocumented means Illeagal, what kind of medical care could > we expect in their country??? Lynn > > By saying Undocumented are you really saying Illegal? Nowhere in > the definition of Illegal do you find the term undoucmented. And if > undocumented is an illegal act, well I would say stablilize the > person in need and send him/her back to their home country. The > fact that you pay taxes wile working in a country illegally without > any benefits is the cost of being an illegal. John Quote
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