TAXABLE OR NOT??

The collectivity seems to be making money on taxing thos are non taxable according to law.


By that I am referring to the 100 € one has to pay to obtain a certificate of non-taxability necessary in order to continue receiving government aid. Without this certificate people cannot continue to collect government assistance.


Now we have thousands of women declared at the CAF as "women living alone" or in French "femme seule", who keep producing babies year after year and who after several children produced it would seem without =thye aid of male sperm, who end up collecting thousands of Euros each month as family assistance, do not work, and an extra addition for being a woman living alone.  Awoman who has six children receives a very tidy assistance from the government. Yet they are not taxable, according to the system since they do not work.


The point is for those who collect several thousand euros a month paying 100€ a year is nothing in order to continue living the life of Riley.


On the other hand, there are the old and the sick, most of whom are our own people, although that seems to be changing too, and many of whom receive only something like 700€ from which they have to eat and pay utilities and someimes rent. They have to pay 100€ which is more than 10% of what they get annually in order to even be able to collect that.


Is this fair? Is this right?


Could the collectivity not have made some kind of distinction when levying this tax? Because that is what it is. Why should a woman who produces a child per year be charged the same as an older, maybe sick person?


And then there is the AME which is health coverage for the "sans papiers" or illegals.


Saint Martiners need their fair share of everything! It is a ticking time bomb!

LEGALIZATION IS NOT THE SOLUTION

This post will not be very long because whenever a native expresses themself they are called among other things xenophobic. My answer to that is it takes one to know one.


People who are not affected by illegal immigrants and overcrowding find it very easy to claim that there are no "illigals" on planet earth. That may be so and I do agree that we should help as many people as possible, but on an island the size of St. Martin which produces nothing and depends on France for everything we are being swamped and it also needs to be said that charity begins at home.


Our politicians seem to be favoring those who come from outside illegally and this creates a false impression of how many people live on this island. Illegals are legalized even though they entered the country illegally, allowed to acquire French nationality, whether Dutch or French, after a few years with no loyalty either to the island or to the European countries whose nationalities they acquire.
The only result of legalization is another wave of illegals, who come to 'try a thing' since others were rewarded for their illegality.


Sooner or later one or several of these groups will present their "own" list and win. How will our politicians get votes then? Coming back to the few remaining natives? We won't be enough to help them then! Too late, too late shall be the cry!