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Round up all the illegals and sell off anything here they own since it's all "ill gotten gains" due to them being here illegally. That's a good start. Criminals should not be allowed to profit from their criminality.
are day workers and don't own much of anything.
Besides our beloved Reagan granted amnesty to 3 million illegals.
cut spending and build the wall/get better border security......and they lied as usual to get what they wanted.
He originally cut taxes but Congress wouldn't let him cut spending.
for his first four years and they lied repeatedly to get what they wanted.....the spending cuts came with Republican/Gingrich controlled Congress in the next four years.
Didn't we just hear complaints about fraud in the WWP? Take a look at this
“[Government] income redistribution agencies are estimated to absorb about two-thirds of each dollar budgeted to them in overhead costs, and in some cases as much as three-quarters of each dollar. Using government data, Robert L. Woodson (1989, p. 63) calculated that, on average, 70 cents of each dollar budgeted for government assistance goes not to the poor, but to the members of the welfare bureaucracy and others serving the poor. Michael Tanner (1996, p. 136 n. 1
cites regional studies supporting this 70/30 split.
So shall we think our government is better at deciding how to spend what citizens earn or do the citizens do it better? The answer is obvious to me.
for that 70 percent? how can we keep those in check who are illegally taking the govt and poor people's money?
take many of the Federal programs and send them back to the States to manage and control on a much smaller scale of populous. Some of those programs can actually be completely eliminated that way since so many of them are overlapping and repetitive/duplicates. Yes, we will also be eliminating Federal employees and making government smaller but the deficit will also be reduced, while Governors and local governments will be able to control their own spending by catching fraud much faster....sometimes even to the point of being able to recover those funds easier. If the IRS on a Federal level can't or won't go after actual tax cheats or outright scofflaws who don't pay taxes they owe to the IRS, what makes politicians believe their accounting systems are success stories? When you fail at something repeatedly, somewhere along the line common sense dictates that you do the job differently.
border powers also. That way when the govt fails to protect the borders, the states can up their efforts to do so. We also need to block the federal govt from interfering in that.
if States controlled the funding instead of the Feds.....like with all taxes collected by the States, the money goes to the Feds, who then decide how much each State should be given back and it's never proportionally correct with much of the money paid in 'high tax' States like New Jersey going to larger States like California in order to keep supporting the illegals when they are in larger numbers because of the lax rules about them. If California had to support them all by themselves, the map would be largely different from what it is now, including places like Illinois where they were publicly invited to come by Rahm.