McCain on Laundering Money Through SSA

John McCain, the Arizona senator who gives RINOs a bad name, Went on Fox News Sunday to chat with Chris Wallace. Among the topics they covered, allowing amnestied illegal aliens to collect on money paid into Social Security why working illegally.

WALLACE: This week, this past week, you were one of the leaders in a 50-49 vote — you were one of the 50 — that will allow illegal immigrants to collect Social Security benefits even if they got their job illegally by forging documents. Forty-four Republicans voted against this. You were one of only 11 Republicans who voted for it.

At a time when Social Security is running out of money, should we allow illegals to benefit from committing a felony?

MCCAIN: Well, they paid the taxes. Do you want to refund — at least shouldn't you then, if you don't want them to get benefits — they paid the taxes. They came out of their salaries, and so they contributed.

Should they at least not — should they be deprived of the taxes that they paid? I don't think that's fair.

WALLACE: But I don't have to tell you conservatives are saying they broke the law and they're going to benefit from that.

MCCAIN: Chris, many conservatives — that's the same argument that we made throughout this debate, that we are giving them amnesty. Look, the taxes were taken out of their paychecks. They were put into a fund that is a legitimate fund.

Of course, they were illegal because they were here illegally. But what we'd like to do over time, and I think we could do this over time, is establish some of these funds back in the country that they came from, so that there would be incentives for them to return home.

But if you just said I'm sorry, you came here illegally, even though you paid into the trust fund, we're just taking your money, I don't think that's really fair, either.

Forget the felony. Disregard the Fraud. Ignore the identity theft. We must above all be fair to those who show complete disregard for our laws. (ed - Like Senators?) We'll even launder their illegally acquired money through the Social Security system.

But what ever you do, don't call it amnesty.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 07:30 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment