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I'm curious why any tax-paying American citizen would support this...

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proposes Full Welfare Benefits for All Immigrants, Regardless of Legal Status"
https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-just-society-trump-immigrant-visa-ban-1463422

This proposal is uncosted.....but a good question:why would we spend money on the poor in need of help?
 
Why not look at expenditures that are happening now, and are vast.

Let's look at real big-ticket items.

$2.1 trillion tax cut: the rich are winning
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tax-plan-consequences/
(from Bloomberg! hardly the left wing)

Or the military? We spend more than the next 12 biggest countries COMBINED, >1/3 of global expediture on war - that's YOU, the US taxpayer spending more than $640 Billion on the military  every year!  All those defense contractor McMansions and BMWs, all those lobbyists 2nd and 3rd houses, all those boondoggles of billion-dollar failed weapons systems and futile wars killing hundreds of thousands of people - including thousands of americans -  you paid for them, with your taxes!



As AOC says, we only ask about $ when it comes to the poor or the non-white or the immigrant. We have trillions for the military and the rich.

Why aren't all these outraged taxpayers talking about them?

Way before caring for non USA citizens, perhaps we need to look after the homeless and poor US citizens in this country.

There is a whole strata of US citizens living at third world standards who are being ignored.

Other first world nations have far better welfare systems for their OWN citizens than the USA.

It is a bizarre and illogical concept to look after citizens of other countries when we don't first look after our own citizens in this country. Perhaps we need to start by addressing the poverty of US citizens in rural areas and states.

 

War on poverty  you say? errrrr.....Look at these 6 bills by AOC.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxpan/heres-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-massive-plan-to-address-poverty-in-america

Why must everyone look at government to do this?  It never has, and never will do a good job with it.  There are numerous charities that do this kind of work, and do it both effectively and efficiently.  Anyone who wishes can put their money where their mouth is, and donate.

if only we treated corporate welfare recipients that way. anyone who wishes to patronize big oil or airlines can put their money where their mouths are and purchase the products without the rest of us subsidizing those concerns with our tax dollars.

Quote from: deja on October 07, 2019, 10:28:03 PM

Why must everyone look at government to do this?  It never has, and never will do a good job with it.  There are numerous charities that do this kind of work, and do it both effectively and efficiently.  Anyone who wishes can put their money where their mouth is, and donate.

if only we treated corporate welfare recipients that way. anyone who wishes to patronize big oil or airlines can put their money where their mouths are and purchase the products without the rest of us subsidizing those concerns with our tax dollars.

I agree.  There should be no corporate welfare or subsidies of any kind. 

Quote from: abcdefghijk on October 08, 2019, 08:19:59 AM

I do believe that it is culturally ingrained in the USA to blame folks for their own poverty.

Other first world nations don't think in the same way. The nation doesn't blame folks for their own poverty.
And so overseas, in first world countries, there is a greater attempt to address poverty issues by the government itself.

I don't think there can be an end to poverty until we, as a society, stop treating poor people like beggars.

Not sure (unclear) what "beggars" has to do with it.

The USA has no safety net for its citizens. For healthcare, housing, unemployment, etc.

All other first world nations do have safety nets for their citizens as part of their country's fundamental structure.

In the USA, if you fall, you fall all the way.

It's simply the difference culturally between the USA and other first world nations.

European, British, Australian and Scandinavian citizens receive many, many more benefits than we do.
Simply part of their infrastructure.

It's the reason when Mr Trump asked "Why don't Norwegians immigrate here?"

Because citizens of most other first world countries are fearful of losing their free health care etc.

Free health care ain't free.  I want lower taxes and more self determination.