While immigrants in the country without authorization do not have Social Security numbers, they can file taxes using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN.

Reports about 3m people file using an ITIN each year, and the number of people expected to legally use them is very small.

Also says they see about $12B more paid into social security by illegals than paid out.

As Al Capone found, the government is would rather you pay tax on illegally earned money.

NZ’s Parliament was regularly described as “more Westminster than Westminster” until we moved to MMP in the 90s.

It has its bugs but it’s far better than FPP and many alternatives.

Ah, it’s been a while since I used ChromeOS. Looks like Flatpak was founded about the time I stopped.

Ah, it’s been a while since I stopped using ChromeOS. That’s an improvement.

Most Fediverse stuff has web front ends so that any modern browser will work.

My concern would be that Chrome is about to neuter ad blockers, and you can’t use a different browser without replacing the OS.

Both are also heavily privacy destroying.

I didn’t realise it was possible to hate every side of an argument this strongly.