• Ginja@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    24
    ·
    3 months ago

    I have no problem with people from other countries.

    I have a problem with people coming here and using our tax money to fund their easy lives.

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Again, youre going to need to back that up. “Funding easy lives” is absolutely not the life of an immigrant. You assume because they are migrating, they are poor, unproductive and going to cost you. That’s called being xenophobic.

      Try looking into how much of your tax dollars go to fund companies to make billionaires that won’t give anything back. Companies during covid ran away and hid their billions, then threatened the government with mass unemployment unless they paid the bill. You footed the bill for thousands of companies that are now refusing to pay proper wages after making record (subsidized) profits. Wages not going up in several decades has nothing to do with immigration.

      10 years ago or so there were no billionaires over 100 billion. Now there are 18 lol. Leave the immigrants alone and start being angry at the right people. You might also want to look at the positive impacts of immigration, the investment in these people is beneficial for the country as most become proper tax payers. That’s why counties do it. Immigration has nothing to do with being nice. Not to mention international students are a big funder of your education system.

      Btw, the difference between a million and a billion is easier to see when looking in seconds. A million seconds is about 11 days, 1 billion seconds is about 32 years. The hundreds of millions spent on immigration is nothing compared to the billions in subsidies the rich get just for being rich.