That nearly one and one half trillion dollars is why we have lost control of our government. They don’t have to answer to taxpayers because they can get one third of their operating costs from people who don’t even exist yet. For all practical purposes, the government now actually has it’s own money. This is a de-coupling of spending from revenue generation.
This is why they can import millions of new people. They don’t have to answer to taxpayers. This is also how they can afford to pay off the wealthy donors and at the same time placate huge numbers of people with welfare payments.
Each year more debt is created than the year before. But taxes hardly go up at all, comparatively speaking. If taxes were used to cover what the government spent, people would revolt and put a stop to it. So they borrow from future revenues and most people don’t feel the pain.
Eventually, it will have to change. All of the people who spent decades lying around will have no skills and their share of the pie will get smaller. Then they will riot and the government will feel fully justified in putting them down. The elites won’t feel a thing because they own everything.
1. We try to flood the country with new immigrants just to spread this debt among more people.
2. More and more illegal immigrants are onto the game and know full well what we're doing ... and as a result they have no interest in a "path to citizenship" no matter how easy we make it.