borndead1 wrote:
Agree, and also farm subsidies and other forms of "corporate welfare"
You'd better define "corporate welfare." Most people define it as giving tax breaks to corporations, which is not a subsidy. Subsidies are handed out after taxs are collected, not before.
Giving me an income tax break does not subsidize my household, as the tax collected is origially my money that I earned through hard work.
borndead1 wrote:
I disagree...there should be a few very clear and ENFORCED regulations, not entire books of legalspeak with dozens of loopholes and no enforcement.
That is effectively deregulation.
borndead1 wrote:
I disagree about Japan and India, but I say put tariffs on the Chinese if they do not allow their currency to appreciate.
Japan not only closes their market to American products, but also manipulates its currency like China.
India's strategy is much like Japan's in that they ate in the initial process of flooding the American markey with cheap good and services in order to get penetration into the market. Don't be surprised if they eventually move to closing their markey to American goods and also manipulate their currency.
So, shut them both down. We'll see who laughs last.
borndead1 wrote:
Completely disagree. Do you have any idea how much money that would cost? Instead of harrassing people, punish the companies that hire them. The penalties for hiring illegal immigrants should be downright Draconian. If nobody will give them jobs, they will stop coming on their own.
Wrong, because shutting down employers who hire illegal aliens is totally ineffective. In most instances, people who hire illegal aliens don't even know they are indeed illegal.
Secondly, going after employers who hite illegals does N-O-T-H-I-N-G to stop the practice ot illegal aliens coming here to tap our social services framework. This bleeds billions of dollars every years from the various government entities. Plus, this does not take into account all of the illegal immigrants here who work exclusively in the black market, which is illegal in the first place.
One way or another it is going to cost you money. In the end, if you simply put a bounty on the head of any illegal alien, and have private bounty hunters track them down, and turn them in for deportation, you'll not only quickly stem the tide of illegals coming to this country, you'll also be able to deport them without the massive bureaucratic overhead.
Find them. Confiscate everything they have. Send them back over the border nekked, and auction their possessions. After a year of that, we'll see just how many people want to come here illegally. Hell, all it took was Arizona passing a law - they didn't even have to enforce the damn thing - to cause the illegals to flee their state. Imagine what will happen when they start getting rounded up?
Oh, and I'll add this: jail any public servent who harbors, and by an action of their office offers shelter to illegal aliens. Give them 5 years. Then we'll see just how dedicated some people are to creating "sactuary cities."