That;s a bit like saying if I don't buy gas for my car I have more money. But then you can't get to work to make more money. In the short term that might have some positive side effects. But you are going to push the economy into recession and ultimately screw over everyone.
Well it would depend on the type of immigrant you accept. Are they one that is just menial, cheap labor that will take welfare checks? If so, we would benefit from not taking them. If they are an entrepreneur that makes new jobs, then we would benefit from accepting them.
Oh, so people should just come to america, live and in poverty and squalor because you don't think they should get to eat or have some place to live. America is a nation of immigrants. You are almost certainly descended from immigrants. I will never understand why some people continue to see immigrants as a threat or burden.
So, you think that people should be allowed to come here and freeload off of social programs that they haven't even paid into? The whole reason people have a right to social security is because they paid into it their whole career. But, someone who has been here a year gets to take thousands in benefits and use those resources that they haven't earned?
Let me ask you this: why on earth would you accept someone into the country who you believed would just live on social programs within five years of entering the country? Is that good for your average American who will have to pay more in taxes to subsidize that? Do you simply want new voters?
I am a descendant from immigrants. But guess what? They didn't have an enormous social safety net when they came to America. They worked to earn a living without freeloading off of a system they in no way helped fund. I'm pretty sure Canada does this with their healthcare system, so I don't know why it is so controversial.
I never denied it was a factor. But it is a small one. Immigrants don't decide what labor is worth, billionaires do. So blaming them while not targeting the oligarchs causing the problem is ridiculous.
But the job goes to the lowest bidder, and they overall are willing to accept less. Billionaires can afford to keep wages low by importing low-skill workers who don't care if they are underpaid since it is better than their home country.
Pompeo isn't any better. Trump has filled his cabinet with people who are desperate to start some new wars. Trump himself has admitted he was minutes away from starting a war with Iran before calling it off last minute.
Yeah, a lot of his picks are crappy. Had he started a war with Iran, his entire base, myself included, would have abandoned him and he knew it. He won on the platform of taking us out of foreign conflicts. Nobody wants to go to war with another Middle Eastern country except for people who could profit from it.
America's tax rates have been falling for decades. There are definitely problems of money being misspent. But the rich have systematically undermined america's tax system. They have lobbied hard to avoid paying taxes and it has been working. That is also a very large factor in america's budget problems.
