Quote Originally Posted by JKDS View Post
I'll argue it. The article relies on the second link jack posted. The 2nd paragraph of the 2nd page says illegal immigrants would pay significantly more taxes if granted a pathway to citizenship. More taxes. Not less.
This is a separate point from what the Salon article says, then. The Salon article makes no predictions or even time-dependent statements that I saw.
If that is a misconstruction of what the other link says (and that other link was the sole reference of the Salon article), then I'm again at a loss, since I now need to read that link, too.

At any rate, I understood the point of the article differently than you and that's all I was discussing.

Quote Originally Posted by JKDS View Post
What you, and perhaps the article, are confused is the reference to the effective tax rate of the 1%, who pay less than everybody cuz repiblicans.
What did I say which indicated a misunderstanding?
What is the missing information which will eradicate my confusion?

Please be careful not to attribute ideas to me which I have not supported.
Just because I understand what someone has said, and can repeat it w/o distortion, doesn't mean that I agree with them.
It means I understand them.