Почему я не голосую за демократов

[ny_quant]

Пришел к власти хороший добрый дедушка Байден, и давай подписывать executive orders as if there is no tomorrow. Из 10 самых важных, которые CNN выделила жирным шрифтом, я поддерживаю один, не имею мнения по одному, не в курсе дела по двум, и против шести. Представляю как рады товарищи справа.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/politics/joe-biden-executive-orders-first-week/index.html

Понятно, что Трамп всё равно хуже, но это отдельно.

А кстати, ходят слухи что Тамп хочет создать свою партию. Вот это было бы здорово. Тогда бы, может быть, к оставшимся умеренным республиканцам присоединились бы умеренные демократы и образовали бы нечто разумное. Я знаю, что размечтался.

Comments

[ny-quant.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll have to bend the knee to the Constitution if that's what it says but I still disagree - it should be changed.

I don't see why anyone needs to represent interests of illegals in the legislature. I do agree about legal non-citizens though.

Interesting about 6 million unauthorized immigrants filing individual income tax returns each year. I wonder why they would do that. My best guess is to get some money from the gov-t.

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

Well, good luck changing the Constitution :)

> I don't see why anyone needs to represent interests of illegals in the legislature. I do agree about legal non-citizens though.

I agree that there is no intrinsic reason why people who are in the country illegally have to be represented in legislature. However, simply counting them is not representation and was never intended as such.

For those legally in the country, I would do something quite simple -- if you pay taxes for 3 years, you can vote in local/state elections, after 5 years you can vote in federal elections as well (the last may be anticonstitutional, unfortunately, I am not sure, but the first can definitely be done easily).

> Interesting about 6 million unauthorized immigrants filing individual income tax returns each year. I wonder why they would do that. My best guess is to get some money from the gov-t.

I can see a lot of good reasons they might want to pay taxes. For example if you overstayed a student or work visa,
you are technically in the country illegally but you definitely would not want to commit a federal crime by tax avoidance. A lot of the dreamers have social security numbers and are continuing to pay taxes with the hope of getting citizenship one day. And so on.

(I did not do any digging in the data, it is an interesting question but no time now, so it is all speculation).