The difference between US citizens costing the taxpayers money and immigrants costing the taxpayers money is...more and potentially limitless added cost! We have already tipped past the halfway point. Less than half supporting the other half. I resent it. I’ve listed only a few of the groups of recipients and avenues of tax money expenditures that I’d like to see gone.
What if tomorrow you found out some of your tax dollars were being sent to prop up a third world country that finally crumbled due to being communist or socialist or for whatever reason? It’s bad enough that so much of what I work for goes to supporting other people, but I have to watch my money being extended past benefitting our country. Many people are clueless about the state of our welfare system and our social security system and how they are still afloat and where the money comes from and how long they can sustain themselves on the current amount of taxes taken from the working class. Those same clueless people will expect their social security payments and Medicare and whatever else they think they have coming when it’s time, because they worked all their lives and paid their dues and paid their share and paid the shares of so many others over a 30-50 year working lifetime or more. They will likely be disappointed.
That’s the difference. We have enough strain on the working class taxpayer to sink the ship already. Why add to it?
What if tomorrow you found out some of your tax dollars were being sent to prop up a third world country that finally crumbled due to being communist or socialist or for whatever reason? It’s bad enough that so much of what I work for goes to supporting other people, but I have to watch my money being extended past benefitting our country. Many people are clueless about the state of our welfare system and our social security system and how they are still afloat and where the money comes from and how long they can sustain themselves on the current amount of taxes taken from the working class. Those same clueless people will expect their social security payments and Medicare and whatever else they think they have coming when it’s time, because they worked all their lives and paid their dues and paid their share and paid the shares of so many others over a 30-50 year working lifetime or more. They will likely be disappointed.
That’s the difference. We have enough strain on the working class taxpayer to sink the ship already. Why add to it?