Apologies in advance if this is a dumb q- but any idea why non US citizens (international) have to pay Medicare and Social security taxes ? Thx in advance!

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Imagine you are the govt writing the tax law for FICA collection. You have to deal with classifying employees and you realize that there is a whole class of employees as “non-immigrant resident aliens”. Would you rather 1) Exclude them from FICA collection even though there is a healthy chance a lot of them will eventually become citizens/PR and make an ask on these social benefits, with the hope of collecting back taxes for years when they were in non-immigrant status (and waste time/effort in the process) or 2) would you collect yearly taxes from them gradually?

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F1 visa students dont pay those. Once you are on H1B, since it has a potential path to citizenship I guess we are supposed to pay Medicare & Social Security

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^ M1 is super accurate.

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That is the tax law. As simple as that.

Wow EY... you must be fun at parties!!

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Thanks m1! :)

Simple - H1Bs/worker visas are a minuscule portion of the alien population - would you not charge the one portion of population that has no choice - taxation without representation- and who can really fund the damn thing for the non contributors? GRE words were useless these are the ones u should know - entitlements, freebies

Who are the non contributors ?

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