Mike to Andy: And your solution is to keep anyone south of the
border out. Then everything will be fine. I don't think so. Let's
try raising the minimum wage and taxing the wealthy before attacking
the poor.
Eric: The solution is not only to see that immigrants are here
legally and adequately tax the wealthy, but also to see legislation
that:
(1) eliminates offshore corporate headquarters,
(2) removes spurious tax shelters, and
(3) prevents corporate flight to other countries in response to
these measures.
Requirement 3 is especially important, since the main justification
for giving the rich and corporations a free ride is to prevent them
from relocating to Albania or Zanzibar.
That's the great evil of globalism...Yahoo! can fly the US flag
outside their corporate headquarters, but act as a snitch and proxy
for the Chinese totalitarian spy machine because they need the
business and have no national allegiance.
It's like that other great paradox of our time: asking citizens to
fight and die for their country in Iraq but not mind the outsourcing
of their jobs to India. When they need you to risk your life, you're
an American; when they take your job away, you're a member of the
global economy. Worst of both worlds.
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