Comments on: Don’t Tell Tom Tancredo http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/ Holding Our Noses So You Don't Have To Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:14:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: curvedbrain http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/comment-page-1/#comment-16144 curvedbrain Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:36:32 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/#comment-16144 <i>Legal bills began to pile up, straining the town’s already tight budget</i> So was the economic hit primarily the result of the costs of fighting ACLU-backed lawsuits, or due to the loss of illegal immigrants? Let's look at the economic balance sheet: On one side, we have illegal immigrants making $8 - $10 hour, many of whom are paid cash under the table paying little in local, state or federal taxes. On the other side of the equation are the costs of illegal immigrants in every community - school taxes for all their children at $8,000+ per year per pupil, "free" healthcare, law enforcement and other government services and benefits which they consume. Why it must be pure "right wing racism" why anyone would object to a situation like that being foisted upon them by illegal immigrants. What other explanation could there be? Legal bills began to pile up, straining the town’s already tight budget

So was the economic hit primarily the result of the costs of fighting ACLU-backed lawsuits, or due to the loss of illegal immigrants? Let’s look at the economic balance sheet: On one side, we have illegal immigrants making $8 – $10 hour, many of whom are paid cash under the table paying little in local, state or federal taxes. On the other side of the equation are the costs of illegal immigrants in every community – school taxes for all their children at $8,000+ per year per pupil, “free” healthcare, law enforcement and other government services and benefits which they consume.

Why it must be pure “right wing racism” why anyone would object to a situation like that being foisted upon them by illegal immigrants. What other explanation could there be?

]]> By: In A Right Wing Town, A Dead End World » Comments From Left Field http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/comment-page-1/#comment-16006 In A Right Wing Town, A Dead End World » Comments From Left Field Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:00:00 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/#comment-16006 [...] Right’s Field (via Oliver Willis) posted this hilarious piece about how the Township of Riverside, New Jersey, shot itself in the foot by passing a tough [...] [...] Right’s Field (via Oliver Willis) posted this hilarious piece about how the Township of Riverside, New Jersey, shot itself in the foot by passing a tough [...]

]]> By: But Illegals Are Bad! http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/comment-page-1/#comment-15949 But Illegals Are Bad! Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:04:35 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/#comment-15949 But all illegals are bad! The gov'mnt should round up every single one of all 20 million of them and kick them out of the country! Jesus don't like brown! All joking aside, it being a gargantuan task notwithstanding, why do you think the government has not captured and deported the estimated 20 million people living here undocumented? It is not for lack of money or law enforcement resources, that's for sure. It is nothing but hypocrisy! They need the cheap labor provided by millions of people living in the shadows in the richest country on earth! Once again proving that love of the dollar is stronger than right-wing racism! But all illegals are bad! The gov’mnt should round up every single one of all 20 million of them and kick them out of the country! Jesus don’t like brown!

All joking aside, it being a gargantuan task notwithstanding, why do you think the government has not captured and deported the estimated 20 million people living here undocumented? It is not for lack of money or law enforcement resources, that’s for sure. It is nothing but hypocrisy! They need the cheap labor provided by millions of people living in the shadows in the richest country on earth! Once again proving that love of the dollar is stronger than right-wing racism!

]]> By: The Sleep Thief http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/comment-page-1/#comment-15946 The Sleep Thief Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:20:17 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/#comment-15946 This is a great post and a very clear illustration, one of the clearest I've seen, of the so-called lump of labour fallacy that anti-immigration advocates inevitably fall into. If immigrants would just leave, supposedly there would be all these jobs for Americans to snap up. The economy just doesn't work that way. Take away productive labour, which is how wealth is created, and it contracts, hurting everyone. This is a great post and a very clear illustration, one of the clearest I’ve seen, of the so-called lump of labour fallacy that anti-immigration advocates inevitably fall into. If immigrants would just leave, supposedly there would be all these jobs for Americans to snap up. The economy just doesn’t work that way. Take away productive labour, which is how wealth is created, and it contracts, hurting everyone.

]]> By: Discussion http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/comment-page-1/#comment-15940 Discussion Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:15:13 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/09/26/dont-tell-tom-tancredo/#comment-15940 A clearer view of the article and the backstory at the link. A clearer view of the article and the backstory at the link.

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