The Founders, though living in a new Nation with a population consisting mostly of recent immigrants, recognized the danger of too many aliens arriving at once without the desire to assimilate into the “spirit” of the new country.
“[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth;” Thomas Jefferson wrote in his “Notes on the State of Virginia,” “or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to the other. It would be a miracle if they were to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.”
And writing “an Examination of the President’s Message” in 1802 for the New York Evening Post, Alexander Hamilton posited that, “Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs.”
Unfortunately, the psychopathic political class remains unbothered by such “trivial” matters as whether the immigrants will ever “learn the principals and imbibe the spirit of our government.” For Democrats, they see the prospect of a host of dependent class voters who favor socialism. The Democrats’ chief funders, the unions, see countless new unionized zombies to exploit in order to fill their coffers. The Republican establishment wants amnesty to please its corporate masters and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The battle over illegal immigration is nothing more than a power and money play among the elites to the detriment of the people.
If you like paying for the schools, healthcare, food stamps, and housing of illegal aliens and for the future, expand the population of Democrat Party voters, then you should listen and idolize these precious, heart-rending, highly emotional, very sympathetic words of the great Mr. Joe Biden! There are few better ways — short of a coup — to transform America from implicit socialism to full-blown Socialism.
[Editor's Note: The very obvious difference between Latin American 'illegal aliens' and immigration of the early 1900s is the very porous, easy to cross southern border of the U.S. Before any system for handlng Latin American immigrants can be designed and implemented, the southern border with Mexico MUST BE SECURED. The United States IS proud of its freedom-seeking immigrant history and IS a land of immigrants, but the United States has NEVER had uncontrolled entry into the U.S. Such a new system requires the dissolution of the very antiquated Immigration & Naturalization Service which 'served' immigrants in the 1930s and a COMPLETE rewrite of the Justice Department's controlling regulations. Past policies of accepting educated, non-criminal persons of financial means is acceptable and preferrable. Such policies are the requirements of most countries worldwide.]
The FairTax is a consumption tax unilaterally applied to all Americans at the same rate. For businesses, payroll taxes would no longer exist. Our exports would include a heavy tax for overseas buyers purchasing our products, while our imports would be cheaper for us to purchase. I'm not sure how this would affect GDP, as more information is necessary.
According to the FairTax website, "Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate." The prebate gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free.
So a family of four making something like $50,000/year should not have to pay taxes, thus preventing an unfair burden on low-income families. Since the FairTax eliminates both federal and payroll taxes, you get to keep your gross pay amount of each paycheck earned.