An ever growing welfare state, lmfao. Yeah, that was a good one wasnt it? I guess I must have meant shrinking welfare state. Thats why the debt has grown to 17.5 trillion dollars while unfunded liabilities have grown to over 90 trillion, oops I meant shrunk.
Well benefits in this case can include food stamps, welfare for children, the alleged 1.2 million (20% of total signups) illegal immigrants that signed up for subsidized health care through Obamas ACA, but there are other costs. The cost of providing increased services like health care through emergency rooms, education, increased law enforcement, the fact that up to 25% of federal and state prisons are illegal immigrants, on and on. Illegal immigrants receive in state tuition in certain states, something that you do not receive as an American citizen if you come from another state. That means they are being subsidised by US citizens and other students.
By the way, where do you think the debt comes from? It exists to pay for federal programs, and those programs at least in part include, wait for it
a multitude of federal benefits! So, the less spent on these programs, the less that needs to be borrowed, the better off we are in the future. Again, there are legitimate uses of our taxes and illegitimate. Weve already established that youd be the first person to offer your credit card to a stranger if they walked up and told you that they need the money, but cmon, dont be purposefully dense.
I didn't quite thoroughly go over the entirety of your post given the massive blocks of text of what largely seems to be personal tirades of opinions, but I think you're hurting your argument by stating things like "the alleged 1.2 million..." and "the fact that up to 25% of federal and state prisons are..." without linking to any particular sources for these 'alleged' statistics. Moreover, without a clear definition of what you consider "welfare", it's harder to determine exactly how much of the budget you're talking about.
Regarding
food stamps: "In 2013, it helped more than 47 million low-income Americans to afford a nutritionally adequate diet in a typical month." The eligibility requirements are actually fairly strict, and undocumented immigrants are ineligible for SNAP (food stamps). It is extremely unlikely that all 47 million are illegal immigrants feasting on taxpayer money. I would say it is probably also somewhat unlikely that even 1 million of the reported 47 million are illegal immigrants. False documentation requires money to produce, and they're probably more costly than the salary of illegal workers can handle.
Regarding 'welfare for children', the category is too broad to discern what programs are 'wasting' money on illegal immigrants. At best they're sponging off programs that provide assistance to health, education, family support, and income security for childrenand what is wrong about using 'your' tax money for programs like that? Do you have evidence about how much illegals cost these programs?
Without knowing where your alleged 1.2 million 'illegal immigrants sign up for Obamacare' number comes from, it's hard to determine its factual value. Moreover, Obamacare does not cover them from a legal standpoint. If they really do account for 20% of total signups, then surely the officials running Obamacare have to be extremely blind, because 20% is not a small percentage. Fraud at that percentage is ridiculously high, and extremely unlikely.
A bit of Googling on the '25% of federal and state prisons are illegal immigrants' number shows the problems with that statistic, namely that the statistic provided as a soundbite was actually "30% of inmates in federal and state prisons are non-citizens" and does not state that the non-citizen number most likely includes legitimate immigrants that have also turned to crime. According to the
Federal Bureau of Prison, about 25% are non-citizens, but 14% of total federal inmates are actually in privately-managed facilities. Pew Research puts the population of undocumented immigrants in 2012 at
11.7 million. The total number of inmates as of May 2014 is 216,746; 25% of that is 54,187. Which means (if running off your assumption that all of the non-citizens are illegal immigrants) a whopping 0.4% of the estimated illegal immigrant population is flopping about federal prisons wasting taxpayer money.
"The cost of providing increased services like health care through emergency rooms, education, increased law enforcement" are things we increase nowadays anyway with the American population, given expensive health insurance, expensive college tuition, and the passion of Americans for guns and personal justice. They are not costs incurred only because of the illegal population.
Consider: many of the jobs illegal immigrants are doing are jobs that American citizens actually do not want to do. The productivity of 11.7 million people is actually quite beneficial to the economy, and they earn what even you wouldn't consider a living wage. Despite your alleged statistics, they do not so easily receive the benefits afforded Americans by government programs. It's quite possible that what they contribute to the economy exceeds the costs they incur.
