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Originally posted by smooth
I brought some of that out when I made the claim that our immigration policies run counter to the two claims that we live and operate within a free market economy and a representative government.
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Agreed. In a true free market capitalist scenario, people should be able to immigrate freely. Problem is, we aren't fortunate enough to have that here in America-- it's a combination of capitalism and socialism. Immigrants come here because they can get "free" money, health care, education, and so on--paid for with money stolen from American taxpayers.
The ideal situation would be to ditch all the social programs and open the borders. People who want to come here to work and succeed on their own merits are more than welcome to do so. They are highly desirable. But the idiot freeloaders who just want to get something for nothing will no longer have any incentive to do so because we wouldn't have a nanny state government protecting them at the expense of productive people.