The Biden Administration and All Things Politics

[Deleted member 365]

Thanks to Biden and the Democrats, this is happening! This is going to help millions of families! Trump gave you tax cuts for the rich, tried to take away your health care, and ignored covid because he thought ignoring it would benefit him politically.

Biden? Rushed vaccines to the states, regardless of which candidate they voted for, passed covid financial relief, got you this, and will soon pass a big infrastructure bill.

First child tax credit payments have been sent. Here's what you need to know

Tens of millions of families have been sent the first payment of the expanded child tax credit, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department said Wednesday night. The beefed-up credit will provide them with extra funds each month through the end of 2021 along with a tax break next year.

www.cnn.com

This is what governing is supposed to look like! Is there anyone here who actually would want to return to the Trump “leadership?”

 

[Al-O-Meter]

This is what governing is supposed to look like!

No, and this isn’t going to end well. In the past 100 days we’ve had the $1.9T American Rescue Plan, the $2.3T American Jobs Plan, and the $1.8T American Families Plan passed. We've got the $3.5T Infrastructure Plan that is going to be rammed through the reconciliation process, and a proposed $5T FY 2022 budget. That is $14.5 trillion dollars.

That level of spending even on an inflation adjusted basis has never been done before. No other year, let alone 100 days, is even close. Not World War II (not even all 4 years put together). Not the Great Depression. Not the Great Society on top of going to the moon in the middle of the cold war while fighting in Vietnam. To make it worse, the Fed rate is being pinned at 0.25% despite inflation topping 5%! This is most definitely not what governing is supposed to look like. This is a John Belushi cocaine binge.

 

[Avery]

If you are a fan of Skyrim or Elder Scrolls games, please take this moment of levity and laugh at this:

 

[JazzyFresh]

I'm told this isn't a big issue. Yeah because you want it to go away after you all called Trump a Nazi and a holder of concentration camps for lesser condition. Right on, hypocrites. Here's BBC no reason to be bias... No agenda...

"An investigation by the BBC has found over 2,000 migrant children are being detained in a camp in the Texan desert that's been ridden with disease, overcrowded, and plagued by a shortage of clean clothes and medical care for the children.

The camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso consists of at least 12 tents – some of which hold hundreds of teenage children.

Staff working there say that illnesses such as Covid, flu, strep throat and lice have affected hundreds of children since it was set up in March."

"There are very signifigant cases of children with Covid"

You'd read/watch this if you were an honest human


But hey those damn Republicans and covid... Nothing to see here, just an humanitarian crisis.

 

[Avery]

I'm told this isn't a big issue. Yeah because you want it to go away after you all called Trump a Nazi and a holder of concentration camps for lesser condition. Right on, hypocrites. Here's BBC no reason to be bias... No agenda...

"An investigation by the BBC has found over 2,000 migrant children are being detained in a camp in the Texan desert that's been ridden with disease, overcrowded, and plagued by a shortage of clean clothes and medical care for the children.

The camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso consists of at least 12 tents – some of which hold hundreds of teenage children.

Staff working there say that illnesses such as Covid, flu, strep throat and lice have affected hundreds of children since it was set up in March."

"There are very signifigant cases of children with Covid"

You'd read/watch this if you were an honest human


But hey those damn Republicans and covid... Nothing to see here, just an humanitarian crisis.

This country is never going to solve its immigration issues regardless of administration until it truly solves for the root issues. We bandaid everything as it’s the easiest road to travel and feign progress.

Detestable conditions and we should be ashamed that Washington can’t come together for real solutions.

 

[JazzyFresh]

This country is never going to solve its immigration issues regardless of administration until it truly solves for the root issues. We bandaid everything as it’s the easiest road to travel and feign progress.

Detestable conditions and we should be ashamed that Washington can’t come together for real solutions.

No argument from me here. There's a balance but nobody really cares

 

[Avery]

No argument from me here. There's a balance but nobody really cares

Immigrants are going to continue to come here as long as they are escaping countries where oppression and opportunity are scant - and that’s not going away.

Americans are very much part of the issue here - employers have knowingly offered work to undocumented workers in farming, construction, hospitality, etc. in order to pay someone less to stretch their own bottom line. We’ve enabled and continue to enable the problem because we are greedy.

And the solution can’t be as easy as round up and deport everyone as we’d suffer critical hits to our workforce and would see the cost of goods go up even more which causes other known risks.

Reality is that tackling immigration would realistically require a 15-20 year plan which doesn’t exist in Washington. My personal belief is that we need to push them to citizenship so we can start to claw actual income taxes from them as well as start holding employers liable for hiring such workers. That’s a very high-level view of course and not a roadmap of deliverables, but deportation is tossing water off the boat without plugging the hole.

Hard to formulate a winning strategy when warring strategies compete for dominance on an annual basis. That’s not an affirmation that we should be a monarchy, but rather that it’s impossible to see true change with a house divided.

 

[JazzyFresh]

Immigrants are going to continue to come here as long as they are escaping countries where oppression and opportunity are scant - and that’s not going away.

Americans are very much part of the issue here - employers have knowingly offered work to undocumented workers in farming, construction, hospitality, etc. in order to pay someone less to stretch their own bottom line. We’ve enabled and continue to enable the problem because we are greedy.

And the solution can’t be as easy as round up and deport everyone as we’d suffer critical hits to our workforce and would see the cost of goods go up even more which causes other known risks.

Reality is that tackling immigration would realistically require a 15-20 year plan which doesn’t exist in Washington. My personal belief is that we need to push them to citizenship so we can start to claw actual income taxes from them as well as start holding employers liable for hiring such workers. That’s a very high-level view of course and not a roadmap of deliverables, but deportation is tossing water off the boat without plugging the hole.

Hard to formulate a winning strategy when warring strategies compete for dominance on an annual basis. That’s not an affirmation that we should be a monarchy, but rather that it’s impossible to see true change with a house divided.

I'm over politics for a day or two but there's gotta be a way to make citizenship a lot easier and regulated. My idea(very long story short) is to grant temporary work visas and allow them to gain citizenship through a year of hard work, paying taxes, and following some basic once a month check in procedure. Contract out certain jobs where we let a certain number of new immigrants gain temp citizenship work for a year, become acclimated and become citizens. If the commit certain crimes or not follow proticol they are out or at the back of the line. Create a waiting list so people aren't just completely left in dark.

 

[Avery]

I'm over politics for a day or two but there's gotta be a way to make citizenship a lot easier and regulated. My idea(very long story short) is to grant temporary work visas and allow them to gain citizenship through a year of hard work, paying taxes, and following some basic once a month check in procedure. Contract out certain jobs where we let a certain number of new immigrants gain temp citizenship work for a year, become acclimated and become citizens. If the commit certain crimes or not follow proticol they are out or at the back of the line. Create a waiting list so people aren't just completely left in dark.

All sound ideas. I also think there’s value in dumping citizenship tests that most citizens can’t pass in favor of learning English as a second language. If you want to progress in this country, you are going to have to learn it one way or the other.

One of my pet peeves is that the terms legal immigration and illegal immigration are treated synonymously to mean the same thing when they are inherently not. One is the entire premise of how America came to be the land of hope and opportunity while the other is how America came to be the land of loss and scorn. As taxpayers, we and generations to come all pick up the check for our lack of actual change.

 

[One Brow]

I'm told this isn't a big issue.

By whom?

So, what are your proposals for addressing the immigrant holding conditions crisis?

 

[Al-O-Meter]

No, and this isn’t going to end well. In the past 100 days we’ve had the $1.9T American Rescue Plan, the $2.3T American Jobs Plan, and the $1.8T American Families Plan passed. We've got the $3.5T Infrastructure Plan that is going to be rammed through the reconciliation process, and a proposed $5T FY 2022 budget. That is $14.5 trillion dollars.

To further put this spending into perspective, the projected tax revenue this year is $3.86 trillion dollars. The $14.5 trillion being spent is 375% of projected revenue.

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www.thebalance.com

To get an idea of how insane that is, the Zimbabwe government spends roughly $6.4 billion against a tax revenue of $2.7 billion. The government of Zimbabwe is only spending 235% of their tax revenue.

 

[One Brow]

While I'm not going to argue that spending without limit is good, I'm pretty sure most of those programs are multi-year (for example, the American Jobs Plan is over 8 years, the American Families Plan is over 10 years).