Unfair welfare support of immigrants
Now, here's the easiest argument to demolish. Those who wield this particular shovel of shit flaunt their inability to abstract with glee. The argument is this: "I don't want to support these people with my tax dollars." Ok, asshole, but how do you get from there to "shoot the motherfucker as he crosses the border"?
I agree with the sentiment. I don't want to support them with my tax dollars, either. And if we didn't have a monster of a welfare system, we wouldn't have to worry about people who are entering the country purely for the handouts. Which is why we need to eliminate all welfare and social security payments to immigrants. (And to everybody else, for that matter, but one thing at a time.)
If you're against the giving of tax dollars to immigrants, then be against the giving of tax dollars to immigrants. This is the perfect example of why this country is going down the toilet. People are bred to accept "the system" as it is and can't even comprehend a government that doesn't play Robin Hood. It's just taken as a law of nature. Well, I'll take gravity, but I'm not taking your goddamn laws. If something doesn't work, try to change it.
Which brings me back, yet again, to the problem that underlies the whole "immigration debate": The current state of American politics makes it impossible to resolve the current immigration problem.
People are looking for a "compromise". News alert: they're not going to find one. Not until they find a solution to every one of the above issues. And the solutions aren't easy. But they are clear:
- Eliminate state sponsors of terrorism.
- Apply objective standards for identifying potentially dangerous immigrants.
- Eliminate the minimum wage.
- Eliminate welfare benefits for immigrants.
If there's some common ground to be found here, maybe it's in the universal hatred, by everyone but bureaucrats, of bureaucracy. If that's the case, then let's take some steps to eliminate it. Red tape couldn't keep out the September 11 hijackers. It sure as fuck shouldn't keep out the good guys.
