[Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political humor)

[DCLewis1 at aol.com]

Bill,
 
With respect to your earlier post (below),  requiring your parent(s)  be US 
citizens if you are going to be a US citizen makes sense to me.  Your  example 
from WWII would not be a problem today, your mother, aunts,  grandfathers, 
whoever, would be admitted as refugees, you'd be fine.
 
Regarding your company declining workers you were sure were citizens:  that's 
a real puzzle to me.  The people you are sure were citizens didn't  have a 
Soc Sec card, drivers lisc, DMV identity badge, or birth  certificate?  Strange. 
 Surely they had something to remind them who  they were.  In my experience, 
young people in particular always carry some  proof of age and identity so 
they can be admitted to bars.
 
Finally regarding citizens freeloading on the social services system as  
opposed to non-citizens.  Ideally, social service systems are sized  and funded to 
support a demand that's proportional to the size of the citizenry  that 
supports it and which it has to support.  Free loading isn't  encouraged, but it 
happens.  If you open up the demand for social services  by increasing the user 
base to non-citizens, and there are no additional  payments from the new 
prospective user base, the social services  system either becomes non-affordable to 
the people that are paying for  it, or the benefits have to decrease.  This 
is the core of the  frustration of state and local governments that are 
substantially impacted by  illegal immigration - demand for social services has 
increased and there are no  new resources.
 
And to think, this whole thread started as political humor.
 
Dave