WillowTree
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50% of Americans pay taxes! 50% do not. What percentage of Canadians pay taxes?We have generational welfare. Do ewe have generational welfare? How many illegal aliens dew ewe have to provide for out of your hard earned money? Key word illegal?
Let's examine how these statistics are used by Republicans to prove the ignorance and gullibility of Republican voter:
1. 50% of Americans don't pay taxes. First off Willow, this statement is a flat out lie. ALL Americans and all people living and working in the USA pay sales taxes, gas taxes, liquor taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, user fees, road tolls, social security taxes, and withholding. 50% of Americans don''t pay federal income taxes, but even minimum wage workers pay 15% SS taxes and withholding taxes.
Yes well, stupid. We all pay sales taxes gas taxes, liquor taxes etc etc etc in addition 50% of us pay federal taxes. Ya got it now you dumbassed Canadian?
In Canada, 78% of Canadians pay income taxes. That's because Canadians have a $14 minimum wage. Our overall wages are similar but it's much cheaper to live in Canada. In large part because our education and health care systems are not only better, and more efficient, good governance means they are run whole hell of a lot cheaper than all of your "for profit" systems which cut wages to the bone to give maximum profits to shareholders.your education system doesn’t seem to have worked for you.
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50% of Americans don't pay federal income tax because they don't make enough money to pay federal income tax. This means that in the richest nation on each, the federal government is issuing "earned income credits" to 22 million families making less than $42,000 per year. That 50% of Americans don't pay income taxes is an indictment of the systemic income inequity in the USA.
You look at the fact the 50% of Americans are not paying federal income taxes as an idictment of those who are getting a "free ride". I look at at 22 million working families receiving federal assistance as an indictment of the low wages for hourly rated employees across the board in the USA, and the corporations who have worked to flatten costs and raise profits and expenses at the expense of front line workers, since Reagan stopped raising the minimum wage in 1981. That’s because you are a dumbassed Canadian.
Wages, as a percentage of costs, are at the same levels as the Guilded Age.
2. Do Canadians have generational welfare? Yes. Our generational welfare is white and native. Especially native. There are a lot of reasons for native welfare and white people in Canada own all of them. Google Residential Schools to know why.
3. Illegals are a red herring. See paragraph #1, in my answer to question #1. Everyone living in America pays taxes. Illegals pay 15% withholding taxes and yet they can't claim earned income credits or other income supports. Their 15% is a gift to the federal government. bullshit!
Why have Republicans so strongly resisted immigration reform or clamping down on companies employing illegals ever since Reagan gave 5 million amnesty? Republicans have been giving cover to their use and abuse of illegal immigrants to line their own pockets, by claiming Democrats are for "santuary cities" and "open borders", which is bullshit.
Illegals are CONTRIBUTING to your economy. They contribute to GDP, they contribute to taxes at ALL levels of government, and because they don't qualify for so many government programs, all of their contributions are at low cost to the government. More bullshit! Want us to send them to your country to contribute dumbass?
4 myths about how immigrants affect the U.S. economy
President Donald Trump’s characterization of immigrants, as people who are a drain public resources, is not backed by the data.www.pbs.org
IF REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT ILLEGALS HERE, WHY DO THEY KEEP HIRING THEM:
'Let them go!': Largest US immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests
A tearful 13-year-old boy stood beside his father as he waved goodbye to his mother, who worked at Koch Foods Inc., the site of the immigration sting.www.usatoday.com
Chicken Plants See Little Fallout From Immigration Raids
The Trump administration says its crackdown helps discourage illegal immigration. But workers' advocates warn it leaves vulnerable employees open to exploitation and unsafe working conditions.www.npr.org