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Rush has a great idea

KevinKohler said:
Correct. It's a stupid idea. Sure, son, you can join this country of ours...you can pay taxes, etc etc etc...and have ABSOLUTELY NO SAY WHATSOEVER ON HOW THOSE TAXES ARE SPENT, HOW THIS COUNTRY IS RAN, ETC ETC ETC.


Who wants to join as a SECOND class citizen? Far better (and cheaper) to be NOT citizens.
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That is what they do and are now.
 
Jerry said:
When it comes right down to it, though, I don't believe anyone should be afforded citizenship as a birthright. IMO each and every person should have to earn it. You would have certain basic rights as a civilian US resident (and that means paying US income/land/sales taxes, etc), but you would have to earn citizenship in order to vote, and perhaps other rights.

I favor honorable military service but that doesn't have to be the only path. Civil service has many faces. Being a full-time EMT, fireman or police for the same number of years as a military term of service. You could own/operate a business above a specified profit margin for a certain number of years, and/or until a certain level of normal taxes have been paid. Perhaps you become some kind of medical physician, or other trade certified technician, hold residency for a number of years and offer a certain % of your services for free to the poor.

We could play with it any number of ways, so long as it's difficult and beneficial to society.

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Then the other side of it is, once someone's a citizen, let's loosen everything up. Open up marriage to be pretty much whoever wants to do it. Issue a gun-permit all states have to honor and remove all the stupid rules. Take religious symbols out of government buildings and coins, but if folks want to "speak the word" in a public aria, leave them alone.

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If a business uses illegal immigrant labor, they should face devastating consequences, including heavy punitive fines, loss of business license, and felony charges.
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I could actually agree with all of that, provided we don't tax non-citizens.

That really turns the nation on its head. Removes borders. It's revolutionary, I think in a good way.

EDIT: Got a thread on it somewhere I can look through and maybe revive?
 
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I love that movie. The book was even better though.
 
Ray410 said:
Woo the Latin vote? How silly. Nobody can outbid the liberals. Mexicans are parasites that vote for the highest bidder. What other reason would there have been to import 80 million of them?
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Wait, what? Are you saying there are only 30 million people left in Mexico? I can't see them taking 80,000,000 out of a population of 110,000,000.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Rush just said what the Reps should do is put forth a bill that made all illegal aliens legal but as a penalty for being here illegally they can't vote for 25 years. I have to wonder what the Dem's response to this would be. My guess is they would not pass it through the senate showing their true colors and Hispanics would abandon the DNC in droves.
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That opinion actually shows Rush's true colors on this issue. He is worried about nonwhite people voting and that is why he favors strict policies on immigration.
 
Thrilla said:
that was pretty damn funny, actually.... but a bit dishonest.

take off the quotation marks ... and peruse through the 2 million+ hits.
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dishonest? Really? to c&p exactly what the poster wrote?

So I did it without the quotes - funny how just in the first two pages, there are only two non-rightie sources, first one was somebody looking for an answer on Answers.Yahoo and the second was a debunking post on NewsHounds.us

if one takes the time to run thru more than the first 10 pages, you will find that Google is simply returning links to any combination of the words, most having little to do with claim about "food stamps being advertised in Mexico"
 
gavinfielder said:
I could actually agree with all of that, provided we don't tax non-citizens.
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We already tax non-citizens who earn any kind of income or own land in the US. I see no reason for that to stop.
 
Ray410 said:
Take the quotation marks off of your search. This should help in your boundless search for truth.

Feliz Navidad.

Don't worry, your freebies will continue until Obama decides that they're no longer of use to you.
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Read post #85.

My location is not a joke, I actually do live in Palm Beach, FL
 
Jerry said:
We already tax non-citizens who earn any kind of income or own land in the US. I see no reason for that to stop.
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indeed, if they dont want to pay their taxes, the border is any direction they care to walk.
 
CriticalThought said:
I have no opinion on this issue at this time. I only marvel at the none-too-subtle racial undertones of this debate.
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You libs are the ones who always play the race card, my OP was a comment on a CNN article. All I did was do what they should have done, dug deeper into the fundamentals of this pivotal voting group.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
You libs are the ones who always play the race card, my OP was a comment on a CNN article. All I did was do what they should have done, dug deeper into the fundamentals of this pivotal voting group.
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The race card is the best part! If you don't vote for Obama you are racist as the liberals point out. If you do vote for Obama it is because you are suffering from "white guilt" as the conservatives point out. Good stuff!
 
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