Sure, and if people like Trump paid their fair of taxes we'd have more money to pay for their care. Instead, he wants to cut rich people's taxes. How will that help veterans? I'm not a liberal, but I am a Christian. I've read many times how this country is supposed to be a "christian nation". I don't see much Christian goodwill when people don't want to help the poor. I don't think the Bible has ever stated that we should only help poor citizens of our own country, but not poor foreigners. |
Speaking of military veterans, why hasn't the Republican-controlled Congress done more to help veterans? They seem to have no problem going against Obama. |
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Well I guess enough venting and we will be paying welfare, free housing etc. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/they-crossed-the-border-illegally-and-cant-vote-but-they-can-knock-on-doors/2016/10/23/bd0a6d06-96eb-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news2_dacavote-1135am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
I suppose next go round Mexicans will be able to cross the border and vote in Texas. Ridiculous. |
This is true. Also there were not as many and many didnt migrate for economic reasons but of civil wars going on in their country. You got many who were affluent and already wealthy. The migrants today are economic migrants and of lower caliber and millions more than when reagan was president. |
With what money, my friend? Should we pile on top of the $20T debt and crash the whole system like Greece, or should we raise taxes on the middle class who are already suffering under unaffordable Obamacare premiums and stagnant wages? Tax the rich won't work.....we could confiscate the entire net worth of the Forbes 400, and it would still leave 90% of the debt untouched. |
NONSENSE! |
+1 And numbers-wise, how many legal immigrants are we talking about vs. native born? |
Yeah, irrelevant to you because you're white and privileged. Again, it has been happening in AZ. It is most certainly relevant to brown people. Please do the world a favor and educate yourself on the definition of racism. |
You say nonsense but apparently didn't click in the link. Slightly more than half (51 or 52 percent) of immigrant households are on government assistance (compared to a third of native-born Americans), and more than three out of four immigrant families (76%!) with children. http://www.fairus.org/publications/the-fiscal-burden-of-illegal-immigration-on-united-states-taxpayers |
Race has nothing to do with this. We are discussing the financial burden involved with making illegals citizens, and the heavy dependency on government assistance. You're the one who interjected race into it. |
| And P.S. How do you know I'm white and privileged. For all you know, I could be seriously I'll, with a poor prognosis, and crumbling under medical bills. Don't assume every white person is so privileged. |
Disagree. Number of Mexican illegal immigrants have decreased. More and more of the illegal immigrants from MX are now actually coming from C. America, escaping violent crime. As Trump has stated, MX's manufacturing sector is booming. They don't need to come here for illegal jobs anymore. Yes, barely over 50% are from MX, but that has been declining. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/20/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/ "2 Mexicans made up 52% of all unauthorized immigrants in 2014, though their numbers had been declining in recent years. There were 5.8 million Mexican unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. that year, down from 6.4 million in 2009, according to the new Pew Research Center estimates. 3 The number of unauthorized immigrants from nations other than Mexico grew by 325,000 since 2009, to an estimated 5.3 million in 2014. Populations went up most for unauthorized immigrants from Asia and Central America, but the number also ticked up for those from sub-Saharan Africa. Increases in the number of unauthorized immigrants from other countries mostly offset the decline in the number from Mexico." |
Officially the number is 12 million, but there are probably more. Can you imagine if we dump them all into the failing Obamacsre exchanges? We'd be doubling the number, and the system is already collapsing as it is. |
First of all, can you tell me how much of the debt is caused by illegal immigrants, their net effect on our economy? Secondly, the rich paying their fair share of taxes would indeed help reduce the deficit, if not at the least prevent it from going higher. Third, lower class Americans were suffering without ACA. I understand that many middle class were negatively affected by ACA, but there are many who were helped by it. |
oh I thought the topic was wacko conspiracy theories and their associated straw men. My bad. |