[quote]MaximusB wrote:
[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
Ok that makes sense, but what about public schools and what not? Wouldn’t a large population increase, at the very least, cause big problems to public programs?
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Yep, and that is why I am against public programs – especially the useless American education system.
But let’s for argument sake assume that those people that do come here are actually supporting the system because they pay consumption taxes and they rent homes where their landlords pay estate taxes to support the schools, etc. Does it matter if they are not paying federal income taxes since most welfare funding is taxed at a local level? I don’t think so.
There is hardly any federal level welfare – it’s mostly used as blackmail money to keep the states in line with the federal government’s wishes – e.g., the federal highway system.[/quote]
So are you a true Libertarian? [/quote]
Lift is right.
There are hardly any Federal welfare programs available. We have Medi-Cal and Cal-works here, which are welfare and some statewide health care programs, but that’s it. I know that our state has asked for a bailout from the Feds, to which they said no. There is no efficiency to any degree with these programs at all, it all just gets swallowed into the black hole of government waste.
Hilarious story about the highway system, well it’s both bitter sweet. How many people have seen it take fucking years to get a road repaired, repaved, or improved in their city or state? I know here in LA, it takes fucking years. Well in Japan, yes nuclear-ridden, glowing the dark JAPAN, they have fixed roads within 6 days of the tsunami. Un-fucking-believable. I bet a union wasn’t behind the repair.
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/japanese-repair-quake-ravaged-road-in-just-six-days/[/quote]
VA roads are actually pretty good because its a not a really highly populated state and we don’t generally get too extreme of weather, but man if something goes wrong it takes forever to fix, and not just that, but there are always like ten workers standing around chewing the fat while two work.