we could afford to do far, far, FAR more to lift standards of living and health to the global population, primarily through massive increases in foreign aid.
Teh.
tehf
You are assuming the people who come here would use less medical services per person than the people already here. Human beings are human beings; many are healthy and a few have really expensive diseases, regardless of what side of an imaginary line they are from. Health care has a cost per person. If many people who…
There are 7.5 billion people on the planet. Budgeting 1,000 per month that would be 90 trillion dollars per year. Even if you want to add 10 trillion dollars a year, that represents a quadrupling of our 4 trillion dollar budget, which would be raided from companies and individuals who are already struggling to compete…
If the theory behind social democracy is supposed to work with the United States’ current size, then it should also work with the additional influx of people from immigration.
No, they don’t have to be sicker, just poorer. This is really obvious unless you are committed to not understanding it. Health care costs money. For a government to provide health care to all its people, you need enough people paying more than they’re taking out to cover the people paying less.
Ok you first. I’m trying to save for a house and keep up with insurance and healthcare costs and fix my car and buy healthier food and fly home to see my parents more often and have a good emergency fund and maybe take a little vacation once in a while. My tax dollars are over 100% allocated for road repair, schools,…
“Cease huffing paint fumes.”
Oh I most certainly do. But how you are equating “caring about other people” with “we should let anyone who wants to come here just walk right in, then financially support a large percentage of them” is completely beyond me.
“realistically the US could have 3 million new immigrants per year (legal and illegal) into perpetuity without any major problems”
No. We can’t.
Say hello to your new overlords!
Individuals require health care. If you add a million poor people, that’s a million more people who need health care. If they aren’t adding enough to the collective to pay for that, then the collective has grown poorer, not richer. The dollar amount of wealth may have increased, but the liability of healthcare for a…
This is nonsense. Some people pay more in taxes than they take out in benefits, some people pay less. Government benefits cannot increase if the number of people who pay less than they take out greatly increases and the number of people who pay more does not. A large increase in poor people without a proportional…
Oh, but now we have the Splinter brain trust saying they actually want it and so should the rest of us and they’re going get a straight answer about Sanders being a Trump-apologist, by golly!
Even by Splinter standards this is a ludicrously stupid take. Even Scandinavia is super hardcore with their border enforcement and getting tighter, as no one can afford to be the world’s welfare.
Left Twitter, i.e., your little sister living in San Fran on her parents dime, feverishly tweeting from their local fair-trade hookah bar, are all about open borders cause it makes them sound more woke and they’ve never actually experienced anything in life, been forced to compete, or really do anything but blog
There are probably some some that think it’s a the bestest idea ever. I agree with you that fully open borders is a shit one world take. As long as other countries are allowed to have borders, we get to have them too. We don’t have to take just anyone. They need to be vetted in some way. You can make the asylum…
Bernie: *Says a thing fueled by logic rather than emotion*
Fully open borders is a bad idea.