March on out of here while you're at it

Reuters is reporting that on May Day, a day for "unions, anarchists and socialist[Marxist/Communist] groups," that across 70 cities in the U.S., illegal immigrants and their patsies will march against the recently signed law in Arizona.

"The marches and demonstrations are going to be far more massive than they otherwise would have been," said Juan Jose Gutierrez, a Los Angeles rally organizer.

"With what's going on in Arizona we see renewed energy for folks to fight for immigration reform," said Marissa Graciosa, of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement.

"What Arizona has done is that it has galvanized, united, fortified, focused our immigration movement," Democratic Representative Luis Gutierrez declared at a news conference.

I find it rather amazing, or perhaps ironic, that the backers of illegal immigration and primary opponents of this law are Hispanic. Never mind that the majority of illegal immigrants do in fact come from south of border, but the representatives of the anti-immigration-enforcement movement call out attention to the fact this is primarily a Latino issue and therefore garners their attention precisely because those primarily affected are Latino. Americans should show grave concern for members of its society that care more about their ethnic brethren than they care about being an American. This is the problem with lack of assimilation, they have no loyalty to this country or our laws, their loyalty belongs to those of their Raza.

The solution to the estimated 12-20 million illegal immigrants is to take away their incentive to be here, jobs. After their May Day rally, Congress should immediately pass Legislation fining employers who hired illegal immigrants $100,000 per illegal immigrant for first time offenders. Second offense should be $250,000 per illegal immigrant and third offense should be confiscation of the personal property of all Corporate Executives and a minimum of five years in Federal prison for aiding and abetting criminal activity. The recently signed law, as we can read in this AP article, is already having the intended consequence of getting illegal immigrants to leave the state.

This notion that somehow people have a RIGHT to come/be here is asinine. Though one can sympathize with people wanting a better life for themselves and their children, the United States cannot alleviate world poverty simply by allowing unfettered immigration. I read a statistic that 40 million people per year are born into poverty. Even if the US allowed one million per year, after ten years we'd have 10 million more poor and the world would have 390 million more poor. The solution is clearly with the rest of the world and forcing free market expansion, weeding out corruption and preserving purchasing power. Our system and Economy are incapable of taking care of the world's poor, it's up to the world to rectify the situation, not one sole country.

Racist?! Pfft!

So illegal immigrants and their patsies on the Left think Arizona's new law, SB 1070, is somehow inherently racist because it requires suspected illegal immigrants to provide proof of being in the US legally. I suppose then that being required to show proof of having paid your fare to ride the train is racist. Being required to show a driver's license while operating a motor vehicle must also be racist. This is all of course the feeble attempt of mentally deficient individuals to conjure up arguments as to why certain individuals should be exempt from the laws everyone else is expected to follow. Hopefully the 20-30% of Americans who either don't have a stance on illegal immigration or are against measures to curb illegal immigration will see the entitlement mentality of said illegal immigrants. However I suspect that since they haven't up to this point, it's unlikely they will and thus any concerns they have should be promptly dismissed as lunacy.

47% Incentivized to not Work, Harder

Phyllis Schlafly wrote that in 2009, 47% of Americans "will pay no federal income taxes". Not only that, but the bottom 40% of earners "not only pay no income tax, but the government sends them cash or benefits". So doing some quick math, 53% of us subsidize 40% of Americans that receive either tax credits or some other form of government assistance.

In complementary fashion to this article, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Larry Summers, current White House Economic Adviser, wrote in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, ed. 1999,

"The second way government assistance programs contribute to long-term unemployment is by providing an incentive, and the means, not to work. Each unemployed person has a 'reservation wage'—the minimum wage he or she insists on getting before accepting a job. Unemployment insurance and other social assistance programs increase [the] reservation wage, causing an unemployed person to remain unemployed longer."

So in addition to redistributing wealth from 53% of taxed earners to the bottom 40%, the 53% of taxed earners subsequently pay the current 9.7% of the Nationally unemployed to remain out of a job because the incentive to find a job doesn't exist. Isn't this common sense? Why work when the "government" takes care of one through unemployment, COBRA, welfare assistance, etc.

"Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute has found that the average unemployment episode rose from 10 weeks before the recession to 19 weeks after Congress twice previously extended jobless benefits—to 79 from 26 weeks."

Even though unemployment beneficiaries take on average 19 weeks off from working, they can technically receive 79 weeks of unemployment. It's just ridiculous.

This Chicago Tribune article states, in "a 2009 report by the American Legislative Exchange Council: A decade's worth of hard data suggests that states with no individual income tax created 89 percent more jobs, and had 32 percent faster personal income growth, than did states with the highest income tax rates." So let's understand this, if a state has few tax burdens, i.e. one can infer they provide less State services, that State created 89% more jobs resulting in a personal income growth of 32%. So by whatever means the State does collect revenue, it collects more of it because the residents of said State are wealthier.

All this goes to show that the more burdensome government becomes, the less productive, less wealthy, more entitled, its Citizens become. Our country will cease to function at some point because the 53% of us paying taxes will have had enough. We'll never go back to WW2 personal income tax rates of 90+%. It's time to overthrow this crap.