ranger13
Vice President of the United States
Vice President and current Presidential candidate
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Post by ranger13 on May 14, 2018 23:43:40 GMT -5
Question 8: What experience do you have that makes you the best and most qualified choice to be President of Virtual Congress? I have served in various roles in vc in the past and I have try to bring new things to vc in these positions. As secretary of the treasury I created a functioning budget for vc that brought a whole new aspect to vc and new ideas for legislation. As speaker, I tested out many different things that included have a set schedule for posting, processing and displaying approval ratings, and creating a sort of ideological seating chart that showed where the individual members of vc fit in. I think these experiences have helped me develop ways to bring new innovative ideas to vc that will continue to make vc interesting and more interactive.
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ranger13
Vice President of the United States
Vice President and current Presidential candidate
Posts: 14
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Post by ranger13 on May 14, 2018 23:48:10 GMT -5
Question 9: As far as I know, none of you have chosen a Vice Presidential candidate yet. What are you looking for in a VP (and if you have picked or want to announce here, why did you pick your candidate). For a running mate, I am looking for someone who is active and contributing member to vc. Someone who would be able to help me maintain an active administration and help implement my agenda. Political beliefs are not as important as having an active and contributing member.
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ranger13
Vice President of the United States
Vice President and current Presidential candidate
Posts: 14
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Post by ranger13 on May 14, 2018 23:51:55 GMT -5
Question 10: Is there a political stance that you want to make sure you get across to voters before the election? You may now answer questions. I believe I have probably done enough presidential debates that most people know my broad political stances. In summary I would describe myself as fiscally conservative and socially moderate. If anyone does want to know how I stand on a specific issue, I would be happy to answer. I would also like to thank bower for hosting this debate and giving us the opportunity to have this debate.
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
Posts: 45
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 0:06:21 GMT -5
Question 4: Immigration is one of the biggest issues facing America today. Where do you stand on immigration, and how would you change the way immigration is currently run in America? This nation was built by immigrants and it will continue to be built by immigrants long after we are all dead. I am an economist, so I look at each issue through the eyes of one. I also hold deep values pertaining to human rights. I believe the greatest problem regarding immigration in this country, is not illegal immigration, but the complication of our legal immigration. The American immigration code is longer than the tax code. For those who want to seek to make taxpayer's lives better should be enraged at how difficult we make the lives of immigrants. To reform the process, I believe we should make three strategic changes. First, we need to eliminate the cap on the number of visas we issue. Our economy is dynamic. It needs a growing workforce to ensure long-term growth. As a nation grows wealthier it produces less children. Our birth rates are declining, we need immigrant flows to sustain our labor markets. We shouldn't have artificial caps on the labor market. The second thing that we need to do is to create a Guest Worker Program for immigrants living south of our border. The Agriculture industry is heavily reliant on immigrant workers. Restricting access to these workers will immediately contract the market. Allowing immigrants to cross over for work during harvest seasons and then to return to Mexico during the off-season would be beneficial to both parties. Lastly, we need to transition to a merit-based system. This would enable us to attract high-skilled workers into the country to meet the needs of our country. As for illegal immigrants, it will cost this country outrageous amounts of money and do catastrophic damage to the economy to mass deport all twelve million immigrants living without dodnaentation. We should establish a pathway to residency for these immigrants so that they can continue to help our economy by advancing themselves with newfound opportunities. Finally, I do believe our border should be secure, which is why as president, I will cycle the national guard units of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California to the Southern Border to ensure security. Everyone here already knows that I'm the most far right of all the candidates running here on the issue of immigration, so it would probably be more productive for me to address my fellow candidate's arguments. I will briefly mention, though, that I support a hard cap of 100,000 immigrants annually and the creation of a deportation force that President Trump campaigned on. I challenge wvamerican to debate me on this subject; after all, this is supposed to be a debate. The first argument that wvamerican presents, that America was "built by immigrants" is so cliched and overused that I already have a stock response ready for it. America also happened to be built by slaves. Do you want to bring back slavery as well? As for human rights, what rights are we violating by denying entry of a person from Mexico? Mexico is a developing country as well as a democracy. Its leadership is not tyrannical nor oppressive. The act of immigration is not a human right in and of itself. In fact, it is antithetical to the human rights of the native inhabitants (aka US citizens) as established by Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. Of those is the right of every people to the self-determination. It is a word so diluted down in modern international politics that it can hardly be seen as a shadow of its former self, but in its original incarnation, it was used to grant a multitude of ethnic groups the right to their own country. Now, America is obviously a multiethnic country, and it would not be remotely plausible to grant self-determination to each ethnic group, but we as Americans do have the right to determine who comes into our country and by extension the composition of our nation. Finally, you say that immigrants make taxpayers' lives easier, but that's a crock of poop. Immigration will inevitably raise the GDP due to higher total output, but immigrants from Mexico contribute far less to the GDP than the average citizen, so they lower the GDP per capita. Total GDP benefits only corporations and investors. Your first and third "strategic changes" are self-contradicting. How can you have a merit-based system if there are no caps? If you let in everyone, then merit has no relevance. In response to your first proposed "strategic change" (we need immigrants to fill our workforce because Americans are aging) that is again a crock of poop. Firstly, I point you back to my earlier analogy to slavery. The slave-owners then also said that slaves were a necessary component of our workforce. Then as now, the wealthy need slaves to make them rich and are refusing to let go of them. Secondly, birth rates are falling all around the world, and that's a good thing. Fewer people means less competition for the finite amount of resources we have on this Earth and an improved quality of life. Eventually, as the third world moves through the demographic transition, we will run out of immigrants to bring in, and it is best to adapt to such a situation ASAP. Lastly, bringing in foreigners to replace American workers is called demographic displacement, and it amounts to nothing less than the slow but steady eradication of the native population. In response to your proposal of a guest worker program, you know full well that people who come over on such programs never leave. The guest worker program of the last century we terrible mistakes and the root of our current illegal immigrant problem. Finally, a path to residency only serves as incentive for more illegal immigrants to flood in. It undermines our entire legal system when we allow a certain group of people to blatantly flout our legal system for, dare I say it, political expedience. Reagan tried to do this in the 80s, and look where we are now? Right back where we were before. America is not the world's welfare office. When Trump promised tough measure on illegal immigration, illegal immigration plummeted last year. Now that they've seen the lack of political will to actually do anything, illegal immigration has spiked back up by 230%. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/13/trumps-illegal-immigrant-zero-tolerance-border-pol/We must deport them all, and we should start by bringing back Bush's Operation Streamline that reduced illegal immigration by 95%. In fact, that would be my first executive order as President.
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
Posts: 45
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 0:14:26 GMT -5
Spooky, I messaged you yesterday with the time of the debate You should have announced on the website. You can't assume that everyone will check kik.
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
Posts: 45
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 0:17:35 GMT -5
Question 4: Immigration is one of the biggest issues facing America today. Where do you stand on immigration, and how would you change the way immigration is currently run in America? .* Set up work programs for undodnaented immigrants currently residing in the United States. Through these programs, undodnaented immigrants can effectively earn their citizenship through hard work. Undodnaented immigrants who are able to work and choose not to do so, will be deported as soon as possible. With this being said, I have not decided on the specifics of this program. My God, I never realized you were so soft on immigration. "Undocumented"? What sort of PC cuckoldry is this?
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
Posts: 45
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 0:20:19 GMT -5
Question 6: Healthcare was arguably the biggest issue in both VC and America under the Obama Administration. What health care system do you think would work best for America, and why? The Healthcare bill I recently proposed “States Choice and Better Healthcare Act.” is the best system for America to continue with in my humble opinion. The healthcare bill I recently proposed will allow states to make their own decisions regarding what type of system of healthcare they want to create and reform. This is the ideal system in my opinion. While the States Choice and Better Healthcare Act is certainly an improvement, it's still far from ideal. If States want to run socialist healthcare systems, they ought to prop it up by themselves. The money should be returned to hardworking taxpayers to make their own decisions or put to use paying off the obscene amount of debt.
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 0:21:48 GMT -5
Question 5: In the modern US, and especially the last few months, gun control has been a hot button topic. What, if any, changes would you like to see made to U.S. gun regulations? This is one area that I cannot compromise on. We as people create laws and we must abide by them. If we do not like the laws that are in place we can change them. The Second Amendment states, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Two things are important to note her. First, the portion that states the necessity of the amendment for preserving the security of a "free State." The Second Amendment was not ratified to protect hunters, nor was it ratified for personal defense. It was ratified to protect individuals from the tyranny of the government. The second portion that is necessary to observe is the portion that says that the "right of the people to bear Arms, shall not be infringed." This is one of the few times throughout the entire Constitution and subsequent amendments that the people are actually granted a "right." Notice it does not say that the people shall have the right to own Arms, but rather to bear them. State laws that prohibit the carrying of firearms are violations to the Constitution. While I would push for reciprocity, I will vigorously fight to have these laws struck down. Further, I will withdraw the recommendation that President Donald Trump made to the ADF to have bump stocks classified as automatic weapons. If you elect me, I will stand firmly by the Second Amendment. I concur with this stance in full.
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Post by PeaceKeepaGirl on May 15, 2018 0:28:42 GMT -5
.* Set up work programs for undodnaented immigrants currently residing in the United States. Through these programs, undodnaented immigrants can effectively earn their citizenship through hard work. Undodnaented immigrants who are able to work and choose not to do so, will be deported as soon as possible. With this being said, I have not decided on the specifics of this program. My God, I never realized you were so soft on immigration. "Undodnaented"? What sort of PC cuckoldry is this? I think the website is replacing every instance of "c*m" with "dna". WV also said "dodnaentation" (doc*mentation) and osouless used "dnabersome" (c*mbersome).
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 0:36:24 GMT -5
Question 7: Foreign policy is an area where the POTUS exercises a lot of their power. What is your philosophy on international relations, and how would you treat specific issues in the realm of foreign policy, such as the Middle East, China, Russia, etc. This is an area that Skinner and I's education will come in handy. I have an economic background in international economics, while he has studied international relations. Together we will apply the lessons we have learned to the realm of foreign policy. Of course. Because our so-called experts in international relations have served us so great so far. The last thing we need is more neocons in office.
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 0:40:47 GMT -5
My God, I never realized you were so soft on immigration. "Undodnaented"? What sort of PC cuckoldry is this? I think the website is replacing every instance of "c*m" with "dna". WV also said "dodnaentation" (doc*mentation) and osouless used "dnabersome" (c*mbersome). Lmao. This website's censors are hilarious. Osouless also said something about a "wGarden toolver", which was almost certainly supposed to be "wh0ever" by the context. That must mean the website is replace "h0e" with "Garden tool".
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
Posts: 45
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 3:27:43 GMT -5
Question 2: With VC being reset, we know longer have any official cabinet positions. What positions would you support creating if you are elected the first President of this new virtual congress? Cabinet positions should only exist so far as they have utility. They are not participation trophies. At this point in time, the only cabinet position I see a utility for is the Secretary of Treasury. Maintaining an up-to-date budget is crucial for passing legislation.
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
Posts: 45
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 3:43:22 GMT -5
Question 3: Of real-world US politicians past and present, who do you admire most and base your political ideology off of? Which leaders in VC history do you admire the most? I have a deep admiration for Theodore Roosevelt. He's the poster-child of what the American spirit used to stand for, and one could say that America was truly great under his presidency. Roosevelt also pushed for voter ID and managed to put an end to the corrupt political machines (which used tactics almost exactly like those of the modern Democrat Party) of the 19th century. In terms of my political ideology, I cannot truly say that I know any real world political figure who fits perfectly with my views. If we expand beyond that to media figures though, I will say that I strongly agree with almost everything that Tucker Carlson says. In terms of VC leaders, I'd say that I admire BertGoldberg the most, especially after his prescient predictions of corruption in VC. Beyond that, no one in particular comes to mine. I will admit that ranger did a great job as Secretary of Treasury. VC declined sharply after he left that position.
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
Posts: 45
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 3:52:31 GMT -5
Question 7: Foreign policy is an area where the POTUS exercises a lot of their power. What is your philosophy on international relations, and how would you treat specific issues in the realm of foreign policy, such as the Middle East, China, Russia, etc. I am strictly an isolationist. American troops should exist only to defend the United States from invasion. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I believe strongly in the right of every people to self-determination, and if the people of a nation want freedom, they must fight for it by themselves. Anything else amounts to installing a puppet government against the will of the people. In the Middle East, I would put a hard 2 year (2 months in VC time) cap on complete withdrawal from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Russia is a conservative, nationalist country, and we should make every effort to make amends and become allies. They are far more worthy allies than the likes of Merkel's totalitarian Germany. China is looking after its own economic interests in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, as it should. We should do the same. We also have a massive trade deficit with China that must be closed by the threat of tariffs. If threats don't work, then we should implement the tariffs and wait for them to back down. After all, who else is China going to sell its junk to?
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 3:57:42 GMT -5
Question 8: What experience do you have that makes you the best and most qualified choice to be President of Virtual Congress? I've been an active Congressman for more than a year, and I've proposed numerous bills and court cases. Even though some of the other candidates may have a bit more experience in leadership roles, I know the workings of VC just as well as any other. The President is an inherently political role and should be elected based on ideology as long as he has the base level of competence (which I of course far exceed).
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 4:02:58 GMT -5
Question 9: As far as I know, none of you have chosen a Vice Presidential candidate yet. What are you looking for in a VP (and if you have picked or want to announce here, why did you pick your candidate). I don't intend to pick a VP unless and until it is clear that I will be moving on to the second round of voting. That way, I can have a broader field of candidates to choose from (in particular dropped out candidates). I hope to find a VP that appeals to the more "mainstream" candidates, but he must be against a path to residency or citizenship for illegal immigrants.
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TheSpookyGhost
Congressperson
Running for President of Virtual Congress; Founder and Current Leader of the Gateway to Sanity Party
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 15, 2018 4:04:30 GMT -5
Question 10: Is there a political stance that you want to make sure you get across to voters before the election? You may now answer questions. America's social fabric is being ripped apart as we speak. I alone can fix it, and I WILL restore America to its former dignity.
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Post by mramerica on May 15, 2018 6:43:41 GMT -5
.* Set up work programs for undodnaented immigrants currently residing in the United States. Through these programs, undodnaented immigrants can effectively earn their citizenship through hard work. Undodnaented immigrants who are able to work and choose not to do so, will be deported as soon as possible. With this being said, I have not decided on the specifics of this program. My God, I never realized you were so soft on immigration. "Undodnaented"? What sort of PC cuckoldry is this? I meant to say “undodnaented”, sorry for the typo. Spooky, I am perfectly fine with the word “illegal immigrant” and I usually do use that word to describe immigrants who are here illegally. However “undodnaented” was simply the word I chose to use at that point in time as I wrote my comment. I am by no means soft on immigration; The America First Immigration Act(s) I proposed before prove this. Feel free to look them up on SoH. Edit: why does it change the word “Undodnaent-ed” after I post?
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Post by bower8899 on May 15, 2018 8:26:56 GMT -5
This is a test
Undocumented
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Post by wvamerican on May 15, 2018 12:51:05 GMT -5
This nation was built by immigrants and it will continue to be built by immigrants long after we are all dead. I am an economist, so I look at each issue through the eyes of one. I also hold deep values pertaining to human rights. I believe the greatest problem regarding immigration in this country, is not illegal immigration, but the complication of our legal immigration. The American immigration code is longer than the tax code. For those who want to seek to make taxpayer's lives better should be enraged at how difficult we make the lives of immigrants. To reform the process, I believe we should make three strategic changes. First, we need to eliminate the cap on the number of visas we issue. Our economy is dynamic. It needs a growing workforce to ensure long-term growth. As a nation grows wealthier it produces less children. Our birth rates are declining, we need immigrant flows to sustain our labor markets. We shouldn't have artificial caps on the labor market. The second thing that we need to do is to create a Guest Worker Program for immigrants living south of our border. The Agriculture industry is heavily reliant on immigrant workers. Restricting access to these workers will immediately contract the market. Allowing immigrants to cross over for work during harvest seasons and then to return to Mexico during the off-season would be beneficial to both parties. Lastly, we need to transition to a merit-based system. This would enable us to attract high-skilled workers into the country to meet the needs of our country. As for illegal immigrants, it will cost this country outrageous amounts of money and do catastrophic damage to the economy to mass deport all twelve million immigrants living without dodnaentation. We should establish a pathway to residency for these immigrants so that they can continue to help our economy by advancing themselves with newfound opportunities. Finally, I do believe our border should be secure, which is why as president, I will cycle the national guard units of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California to the Southern Border to ensure security. Everyone here already knows that I'm the most far right of all the candidates running here on the issue of immigration, so it would probably be more productive for me to address my fellow candidate's arguments. I will briefly mention, though, that I support a hard cap of 100,000 immigrants annually and the creation of a deportation force that President Trump campaigned on. I challenge wvamerican to debate me on this subject; after all, this is supposed to be a debate. The first argument that wvamerican presents, that America was "built by immigrants" is so cliched and overused that I already have a stock response ready for it. America also happened to be built by slaves. Do you want to bring back slavery as well? As for human rights, what rights are we violating by denying entry of a person from Mexico? Mexico is a developing country as well as a democracy. Its leadership is not tyrannical nor oppressive. The act of immigration is not a human right in and of itself. In fact, it is antithetical to the human rights of the native inhabitants (aka US citizens) as established by Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. Of those is the right of every people to the self-determination. It is a word so diluted down in modern international politics that it can hardly be seen as a shadow of its former self, but in its original incarnation, it was used to grant a multitude of ethnic groups the right to their own country. Now, America is obviously a multiethnic country, and it would not be remotely plausible to grant self-determination to each ethnic group, but we as Americans do have the right to determine who comes into our country and by extension the composition of our nation. Finally, you say that immigrants make taxpayers' lives easier, but that's a crock of poop. Immigration will inevitably raise the GDP due to higher total output, but immigrants from Mexico contribute far less to the GDP than the average citizen, so they lower the GDP per capita. Total GDP benefits only corporations and investors. Your first and third "strategic changes" are self-contradicting. How can you have a merit-based system if there are no caps? If you let in everyone, then merit has no relevance. In response to your first proposed "strategic change" (we need immigrants to fill our workforce because Americans are aging) that is again a crock of poop. Firstly, I point you back to my earlier analogy to slavery. The slave-owners then also said that slaves were a necessary component of our workforce. Then as now, the wealthy need slaves to make them rich and are refusing to let go of them. Secondly, birth rates are falling all around the world, and that's a good thing. Fewer people means less competition for the finite amount of resources we have on this Earth and an improved quality of life. Eventually, as the third world moves through the demographic transition, we will run out of immigrants to bring in, and it is best to adapt to such a situation ASAP. Lastly, bringing in foreigners to replace American workers is called demographic displacement, and it amounts to nothing less than the slow but steady eradication of the native population. In response to your proposal of a guest worker program, you know full well that people who come over on such programs never leave. The guest worker program of the last century we terrible mistakes and the root of our current illegal immigrant problem. Finally, a path to residency only serves as incentive for more illegal immigrants to flood in. It undermines our entire legal system when we allow a certain group of people to blatantly flout our legal system for, dare I say it, political expedience. Reagan tried to do this in the 80s, and look where we are now? Right back where we were before. America is not the world's welfare office. When Trump promised tough measure on illegal immigration, illegal immigration plummeted last year. Now that they've seen the lack of political will to actually do anything, illegal immigration has spiked back up by 230%. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/13/trumps-illegal-immigrant-zero-tolerance-border-pol/We must deport them all, and we should start by bringing back Bush's Operation Streamline that reduced illegal immigration by 95%. In fact, that would be my first executive order as President. To address your first point that immigration is similar to the institution of slavery in my logic, my argument for human rights provides evidence against your claim. I do not claim that immigration itself is a human right. Rather, each person is endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and property. Each person owns themselves, and in doing so they have the right to free association and contract. Strict immigration laws violate these rights by not allowing employers and employees to enter into such associations and formulate such contracts. To address your second point that my first and third proposal are contradictory, I must explain that the merit-based system will provide a threshold that applicants must reach to be issued a visa upon clearing a background check. There will not be a limit to the number of visas issued, but that is by no means contradicting the point-system. Your claim that the rich are exploiting the poor is a Marxist claim that originates with the labor theory of value. If we consider that the value of every product is the amount of work that we put into it then any profit margin is exploitation. However, we have long debunked the labor theory of value with the Marginalist Revolution of supply and demand. You stated that declining birth rates are a good thing, and in part you are correct. However, if a labor force contracts without a subsequent increase in productivity and you will have a contraction in economic output and a decline in the standard of living. Productivity growth has been steady at low rates for several decades. The best way to increase productivity is to increase the education of the public, increase the health of the public, and foster an entrepreneur environment. Immigrants are far and wide healthier than American citizens and you cannot build an environment for entrepreneurs by building walls in the market. Next, you say that total GDP only helps corporations and investors, but this shows a lack of understanding of what Gross Domestic Product is. GDP is a macroeconomic indicator for the size of the economy. It includes four major components: private consumption, private investment/savings, government expenditures, and net exports. Personal consumption reflects what the average American consumes in the market, as does next exports. Investments are for investors and corporations, but also for the average American saving for retirement. While some us may look down upon building the stock of capital, but it is what directly determines the future growth of employment, wages, and the standard of living. Next, to address your claim that immigrants are a drain on taxpayers and the economy. Unlike popular claims, immigrants are complimentary rather than substitutes for native workers. In fact, all else equal, English proficiency increases wages by 21%. Further, they drive up the value of property, which benefits homeowners. Each of the 40 million immigrants in the US boosts the value of housing in their local county by 11.6 cents. This in total, increases the taxable housing value by $3.7 trillion, which helps state and local governments remain solvent. Further, immigrants below 200% of the poverty line use less likely to use public assistance than native citizens, and when they utilize these services, they do so at a lower dollar amount. A 2000 study in LA found that immigrants in the 18-64 age bracket only consumed 33% of the healthcare that native citizens of the same age bracket did. Now let's look at the overall cost versus benefits of immigrants. Immigrants made up 14.7% of the total contributions of Medicare Plan A while only consuming 7.9% of the Medicare Plan A budget. This aggregates to a net gain of $13.8 billion. Native citizens contribute a net loss of $30.9 billion. Among Medicare Plan B, immigrants spend per capita $1,465 less than native citizens. The Social Security Administration's actuaries ran a study that found that a moratorium on immigration would increase the debt of social security by 31% while an increase in immigration by 33% would reduce the total unfunded liabilities by 10%. However, most immigrants do not stay long enough to collect the benefits are authorized to receive, 30% in total. Finally running the models on a global scale, following the assumption that you listed that poor immigrants move to the rich countries until we run out of immigrants; freely allowing this to happen would boost Global GDP by 50-150% or $40 to $120 trillion. So, under my plan of opening immigration, we actually reduce our unfunded liabilities and put us on a more solvent path as a country; we grow wealthier as a populous, and we come to have new opportunities. Under the drastic reductions in immigration that you are calling for, we actually are going to contract the economy, increase our insolvency, and block the roads to prosperity that this country needs. Finally, to your demographic displacement, this only becomes a concern if one wishes to prevent diversity. This xenophobic attitude is not something that debating will convince the either of us. It is how one views the world.
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