Comment by mothballed
23 days ago
I wonder what the emigrating demographics look like. I have looked more into emigration lately as my demographic is 'replaced' and productive workers are increasingly used as fodder for parasitic attacks in favor of the ever growing benefits towards the non-productive class. The USA is increasingly becoming a place where it is best to be either be either a rich capital holder or to own nothing and get ~everything provided as long as you pop out enough kids or meet the right benefits criteria.
If you're in the middle getting squeezed you can earn more in places like Singapore or Dubai and at lower taxation rates, and the immigration scheme might be fairly simple. If you're going to live under the whims of an insane ruler you might as well get the upsides of such monarchy like you do in places like Dubai. 'Free' speech and easy access to guns are basically the only remaining gambit USA has to offer me that ~nowhere else does.
People making both the "they are a draw on the system" and "they are taking all the jobs" arguments confuse me.
You can be anti-immigration, but you should pick one.
Well, depending on the state, you can come into illegally America and work for below-minimum wage under the table, have several children (legal citizens through birthright citizenship) and then attain benefits on behalf of those children who, on paper, live in a household with little or no income.
None of this is made up. I grew up with several friends that had this arrangement and later in life attained citizenship, usually through military service, and told me the reality of their upbringing. It’s a complex environment.
Approximately 40-45% of _all_ US residents, natural-born or immigrant, receive more public benefits than they pay in taxes. Consider if an immigrant making a below-average wage could actually fit into both categories.
I'm not against immigration, just pointing out the flaw in your argument.
Why? They aren't mutually exclusive.
moving to Dubai if you believe in the constitution is just odd. I guess some people like money more than the values of equity, liberty and democracy?
> parasitic attacks in favor of the ever growing benefits towards the non-productive class
You can just say "billionaires".
Brah, you are just straight up reprehensible with your views
Right!? I can't believe it's current year and this bigot doesn't want his country overrun with foreigners or to have a middle class lifestyle unattainable for the average man. Discusting!
Yea, I live in in immigrant nation called the United States of America.
Go re-read The New Colossus if you need to understand my views on immigration, and why I find his views reprehensible.
My demographic, American, is being replaced by people like him who are adopting Anti American views.
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> I can't believe it's current year and this bigot doesn't want his country overrun with foreigners or to have a middle class lifestyle unattainable for the average man
Tsk tsk, peasants learned to live with their stature centuries ago why can’t you?
> get ~everything provided as long as you pop out enough kids or meet the right benefits criteria
You’ve been huffing way too much right wing propaganda. “Welfare queens” have been a boogeyman for decades.
I would agree that social security recipients tend to be the biggest welfare queens. They paid a bunch of people that are now dead. And think because they "paid into" one group of dead people, that now living other people now owe them. An exercise in the logic of the insane, but yet the veneer that holds up the fiction.
It's a broke and bankrupt system, a wise person might jump the ship well before that happens.
> They paid a bunch of people that are now dead
No, they didn’t:
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased...
You desperately need to diversify your media diet.
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> It's a broke and bankrupt system, a wise person might jump the ship well before that happens.
so... tax evasion or renunciation?
When billionaires and red states are the biggest "welfare queens".
It's always projection with these people.
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