Treat the Cause, Not the Symptom: Welfare State Is Draw for Illegals
Quoting Forgotten Man:
“People coming to work is a problem in several ways.
1. Due to the fact that they are illegal it artificially keeps wages low.
2. They steal jobs from legal residents that would do those jobs if the pay was set by an honest labor market.
3. It forces the tax payers to pick up costs such as Workman’s Compensation for illegals because in almost 1005 of the cases people hiring illegals do not pay for Workman’s Comp.
4. It foster an environment of illegal activity and a market for false documents, driving without insurance and other activities that produce income without the tax burden that honest people are forced to pay.
It is not our job or responsibility to support foreigners from anywhere. If there are here illegally they need to go the hell home.”
This argument is little different than the labor unionists opposing all immigration on the grounds that “They steal jobs from Americans.” This type of argument does concede the moral high ground to the Left. By not opposing the existence of the welfare state, the implication is that the welfare state has to exist, that it is pointless to oppose it. This appeasement of the Left is at the root of every element of Republican welfare statism. It is what makes us refer to them as Republicrats or me-too Republicans. It is the core reason why the government always grows in size whether the statists in charge call themselves Democrats or Republicans.
Further, this type of argument also concedes to the Left’s position that the government’s place is to tell businesses who they can hire and who they cannot. It puts government in the position of picking winners and losers in the market for labor, and in the position of dictating what a proper wage is. Success in business then becomes a game of which group can successfully influence government to crate policy in its favor. Pressure group warfare, as we have now, is the inevitable result of all such government intervention.
