Every time a comprehensive immigration bill looked like it would pass it was jettisoned by right wing Republicans despite bipartisan majority support.
So are you saying you want the IRS to be a profit center? You want IRS agents trying to meet a quota to justify their existence?
Oh, I think you know And the overall population was much smaller back then. Dominant. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. barfo
Nope, no clue what your point is. Only one spelling error? I'm improving, but don't think any post will be that correct again. Ref: population. I did some rough calculations using the peak period for Irish immigration, 1850, vs Mexico crossing rate today. Based on USA population for each time period, today the immigration rate is about 50% higher than the 1850 peak Irish rate.
Some of you are not informed as to what is happening around the country. Watch this video. There are tons more.
So, back then, lots of people thought that the Irish were invaders, destroying the country, etc. etc. Yet in the end it turned out fine and most of us are happy they came. What evidence do you have that the current immigrants won't successfully assimilate? The language barrier is real, but it's not as bad as you are making out, since something like 15% of Americans speak Spanish (and a higher percentage near the border, of course). barfo
Yes, I see people complaining about immigrants online. Demonstrating about immigrants in videos. I don't see what actual problems immigrants are causing. Again, I don't see immigrant panhandlers or homeless. What problems are immigrants causing again?
Not clear to me what lesson we are supposed to learn from watching that video? That attention-whores sometimes organize protests? There are violent assholes in NYC? That people are emotional about immigration? I didn't see anything that suggested a solution. barfo
Back then, it turned out OK because there were many jobs the Irish could fit into. Today, we have far fewer of those types of jobs, because, many of those jobs moved to Mexico, and other foreign countries. We have tons of job openings, but many of them require training.
Nativists said of Irish immigrants, we can't understand their English. They are loyal to pope, not America. They drink too much. They lower property values. They aren't really white. The history of immigration is a history of former outsiders "becoming white". Irish, Greeks, Poles. Jews a bit less, assimilated and successful but still a target of racists. More recently Cubans. So you have the seeming incongruity of Cuban-Americans Nick Fuentes and Enrique Tarrio and Jewish Stephen Miller as overt white supremacists. The difference is they include themselves in "white".
The constitution was written by people who fought a war to escape tyranny and taxes. Income tax wasn’t implemented until 1913 when Woodrow Wilson sold the country to private interests who still own it to this day. The mainstream “just out here fixin’ the roads” framing of the tax system is beyond childish. Our tax dollars are egregiously misappropriated and reallocated to special interests. Much of it never sees the light of day again and is never recirculated back into the economy in any meaningful way. Also, as side note, for the bleeding hearts who think the border should be wide open or else you hate “brown people”. You may want to consider the fact that the “good guy just doin’ ma part” tax dollars you proudly fork over have been used to slaughter millions of brown people illegally and unjustifiably so politicians, lobbyists and contractors can buy bigger houses.
Kind of a scatter gun response.....especially when I never mentioned the border issues. But if I understand what you're trying to say in your next response, those IRS folks should get "real jobs", as you think they aren't paying their taxes from their current jobs. And we that we (American citizens) all will happily hand over our taxes if they are all the same low rate. What part of "people are cheating on their taxes" don't you understand? Because the IRS was underfunded and staffed, billions, if not trillions in were not collected, nor were those tax obligations voluntarily sent in. Debate "fairness" all you want, cheating is cheating, and what's fair to me is that those who dodge their taxes should be held accountable. So it's time to go after those "special interests" you point out. And very few of those who framed the Constitution actually fought in the war. And at the end, they chose a Democratic Republic because they knew if they created an actual Republic (minority rule where the rights of the majority are protected) over a Democracy (majority rule where the rights of the minority are protected) because they knew if they didn't, the majority ("common folk") who had actually shed blood and had real skin in the game would eventually rebel against the ruling minority. So the framers created a system that would give majority control while protecting their own interests. What we need is actual tax REFORM. and we all know that ain't gonna happen. So let's make an actual achievable goal of going after the tax cheats. You rail at the elites but complain whenever anyone tries to hold their feet to the fire.........
