The Democrats whined and pleaded with Reagan to sign the amnesty bill.
What a complete crock of shit.
Reagan address on immigration and refugee policy:
Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status.
We shall continue America's tradition as a land that welcomes peoples from other countries. We shall also, with other countries, continue to share in the responsibility of welcoming and resettling those who flee oppression.
That generosity was ill advised then, and is more so now.
You know what else Reagan did? He killed a shitload of tax expenditures.
And ever since then, our corrupt American Politboro has been working double overtime putting them all back in, and then some. To the tune of $1.2 trillion a year now. THAT is the chief cause of our debt and our stagnant wages.
And you know who the biggest offenders are? Republicans. Republicans stuff far more tax expenditures into the tax code than Democrats. Because that's a way to enact a tax hike on every American while giving gifts to special interests without being noticed.
Immigrants have ****-all to do with our problems. They are scapegoats and red herrings.
Another big cause of stagnant wages is our education system has failed us. We need to teach our kids the skills they need for the jobs of tomorrow. This current opposition to Common Core is literally an effort to keep our kids ignorant. The tards are shooting themselves in the head trying to stop Common Core.
A great many of the jobs that are gone are gone forever. They didn't go overseas. They were obsoleted by technology. They are not coming back.
Those jobs that went overseas belong overseas. I'm sorry, but shirt making is not a $25 an hour skill.
America became great because of our ingenuity. We are losing that edge and we need to get it back.
All this finger pointing at immigrants is downright criminal in that it diverts attention away from the REAL causes. And if our politicians fail to act on the REAL causes, and the demagogues lead the rubes to chase darkies with torches, they are all traitors as far as I am concerned.
I was afraid you were going into tax expenditures.
You have a link or can you explain how they make the wages of the middle class stagnant?
Tax expenditures transfer wealth up the food chain, and they necessitate higher tax rates on everyone.
For example, the Mortgage Interest Deduction. The MID is rolled into the cost of your house. That means that money you think you are getting to keep is actually cancelled out by the fact you pay more for your house.
Since $80 billion a year is spent on the MID, and you aren't benefiting from it, who is getting that money?
Answer: The people who benefit from higher home prices. Banks, brokers, and real estate agents. That's why the real estate lobby alone spends $110 million a year on campaign contributions and lobbyists.
So you are a sucker. While you have been fooled into thinking "I get to keep more of my own money", you are actually being robbed by the one percenters.
And every dollar that is spent on tax expenditures (deductions, credits, exemptions) has to made up for by someone else. And that is achieved by higher tax rates on everyone.
So you lose twice. Your home price is higher, and your taxes are higher. Thanks to these massive government gift giveaways.
That's why Reagan, a conservative, was so opposed to them. And that is why I am so vehemently opposed to them.
$1.2 trillion a year. What's our deficit every year?
Yeah. Do the math.
If we eliminated tax expenditures, we could lower EVERYONE's tax rates, and that is very, very good for the economy.
Plus, we would have a level playing field, and that is also very, very good for the economy.
Your employer-sponsored health insurance exemption is another example. Employer sponsored health insurance is one of the leading causes of the health care cost curve bending upward. And that problem is further entrenched with the exemption. The exemption should be removed so that this boondoggle is disincentivized. That will help lower health care costs, and that is also very, very good for the economy.
Put simply, we need way, way less government intervention in our daily lives. Tax expenditures are a massive government behavioral control program which are used to control the herd and concentrate wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
