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One Man's Quest to Detoxify the Immigration Debate
WASHINGTON D.C. (June 1 2015) -- He has put four years of study into it and at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on June 12 he will be ready to unveil the details of a plan to change the immigration debate – a plan that eschews the toxic words “citizenship” and “amnesty.” A third way if you will.
He is Mark Jason. As becomes a former IRS special agent Jason's plan relies on a tax reform to allay a lot of the anguish associated with undocumented immigrants already in this country. Jason says “the plan is to issue a unique renewable work permit valid for 10 years " he says adding "This will enable people who want to work to work. The plan alleviates the burden on local services like education medicine courts and prisons."
At the center of Jason's plan is a tax of between 5 and 10 percent on the wages of undocumented immigrants which would be paid by the employer and which Jason estimates would yield $100 billion over a 10-year period. The beauty of this according to Jason is it ends life in the shadows for an estimated 11 million people. At present illegal immigrants are paid on average 25 percent less than legal immigrants so employers will continue to reap low-wage benefits he says.
Jason’s interest in taxes began in the 1960s with a paper on a Soviet “turnover” tax designed to lessen cigarette use and vodka consumption and continued while working with the IRS as a special agent the California State University system as a budget analyst and as a businessman. Jason's family was in the movie business and he was a social friend of Ronald Reagan. He was partly educated in Mexico and owns a melon farm there.
Four years ago Jason founded an organization called the Immigration Tax Inquiry Group and has been working on perfecting a solution to the undocumented worker problem almost full time. Jason says “Many undocumented immigrants would as soon return their homelands to visit and have the option to retire there but lack the papers to travel and fear arrest.”
He hopes that one of the 2016 presidential campaigns will endorse the proposal.
SOURCE: Immigrant Tax Inquiry Group
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