There you go again, advocating rewarding lawbreakers for violating our immigration laws. We don't need illegal aliens in the United States for any reason. Any job currently being done by an illegal alien can be done by an American worker or a legal immigrant worker.
If you advocate deportation rather than punishment through fine, documenting and expanding the SS tax base, then you are advocating tax increases. There Is No Mathematical Way Around This. Demographics define this.
Make your choice. Do you advocate extra government spending on escorted busrides to the border and sharp, painful increases in SS taxes or do you want to punish illegals, parole them and make them contributing members of society. There are no other choices.
Yes there is another choice. Deport all illegal alien lawbreakers and replace them with American workers and legal immigrant workers. By doing this, we will be expanding the SS tax base and we won't need to increase SS taxes.
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Yes there is another choice. Deport all illegal alien lawbreakers and replace them with American workers and legal immigrant workers. By doing this, we will be expanding the SS tax base and we won't need to increase SS taxes.
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No, there is not. You need to study the nation's demographics. There are not enough American working age people. Period. Full stop. There is no way around this. The population of the US does not have enough working age people to fund SS. The way to address that is very precisely what you suggest, and what I suggest. We're in agreement. Have the job done by legal immigrant workers -- which is what an illegal becomes after enduring his punishment and parole.
Only in this way can the SS tax base keep your parents from starving and allow you to retain your conservative credentials by opposing tax increases.