Trump Signs Executive Order REMOVING Illegal Immigrants From Census Counting

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[–]Kabubum 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

By law, illegal immigrants should not be there. You can agree or disagree about the law, but right now it is very clear that the illegal immigrants have no right to be in the country and therefore should not count for any distribution of government funds or votes. The debate should be, wether legal immigrants should count or not. In my opinion, they are legal residents and should count towards federal funds distributed based on population. In federal elections however, only citizens can vote and therefore only those should be counted when distributing votes.

[–]medium_tomato 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I mean this just kind of makes sense. No representation without taxation. If people come here illegally and don't contribute to society why should they be represented?

[–]RightNowPlease 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Last I checked illegals still pay sales tax.

[–]noice 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty sure that only goes to the state. Also, my tax burden is waaayyy higher than what I pay in sales tax.

[–]medium_tomato 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

How do they pay taxes? Sales tax barely counts. Even tourists pay that. US Citizens, and people with green cards and work visas actually have to pay that big painful chunk of taxes that comes out of our income. That goes to federal programs as well as state. Then in some states like California illegals that contribute nothing get special programs and get free fucking college. That's just not right at all.

[–]fartwaffen 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So do tourists. They aren't counted either. But at least the tourists follow the law.