- 15 Jul 2017 16:32
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What I took away from the comic was that if a citizen and a non-citizen are both paid $25 an hour for the same work, the non-citizen has more money because he isn't paying income tax. Issues about dental care (which some states apparently do provide through Medicaid related programs, others don't) and housing vouchers related to federal welfare systems (again, some states will provide this, others don't; the welfare systems tend to mix state and federal benefits) can be nuanced but the basic issue that people are upset about is that foreigners are sometimes given things that natives are not.
So I responded to you, maybe you can do me the same curtesy; should immigrant residents who won't be getting deported pay the same taxes that citizens do?
SpecialOlympian wrote:Yeah that's kind of up to you to prove that life on $52K is a hellish nightmare compared to the carefree, whimsical life of an illegal immigrant. You can focus on the taxation aspect but the point of the comic is that a guy making $52K can barely scrape by. The comic is basically whining about how easy illegal laborers have it, and how it's not fair that they aren't being ground to dust like your average $25/hour citizen. That kind of misses the huge issue of how $25/hour is, apparently, a barely livable wage.
Your comic that you found in reddit's garbage pail claims 1) dental care is free and abundant, but only if you're not a citizen and 2) non-citizens can receive federal housing vouchers (they don't).
It's reddit garbage devoid of substance made for morons. In short, it's every other post you've ever made.
What I took away from the comic was that if a citizen and a non-citizen are both paid $25 an hour for the same work, the non-citizen has more money because he isn't paying income tax. Issues about dental care (which some states apparently do provide through Medicaid related programs, others don't) and housing vouchers related to federal welfare systems (again, some states will provide this, others don't; the welfare systems tend to mix state and federal benefits) can be nuanced but the basic issue that people are upset about is that foreigners are sometimes given things that natives are not.
So I responded to you, maybe you can do me the same curtesy; should immigrant residents who won't be getting deported pay the same taxes that citizens do?
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