They already did. That awesome new tax "reform" that benefitted corporations and rich people has me paying another $2-3k in taxes every year.
And I'm not wealthy by any stretch.
Taxes serve a purpose. But what's screwed up is who ends up paying the bulk of them. A hint: it's NOT the people who can afford to make big campaign contributions.
And speaking of those kinds of people...
In a former lifetime, I used to work immigration violations. A border "wall" stopping illegal immigration is a promise almost as empty as shampoo that miraculously grows hair on bald men, or an email from an attorney in Nigeria who can make you rich if you help him out with a "small processing fee ."
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It's a promise used by xenophobic politicians to folks who don't know any better.
Illegal immigration will continue as long as there are jobs for the illegals. And there will always be jobs when there are little or no consequences for the people who pay them. Why are there no consequences, you ask?
Excellent question. Because the CEO's, business owners, and wealthy stockholders make big campaign donations. And those they contribute money to end up putting political weight on the agencies charged with enforcing the law.
The way it used to work (and it's similar now, but the agency names and some of the terminology are different) was simple. If too many illegals start crossing and maybe there are a few high-profile crimes in the news, the political talking heads will tell us all that they're going to "get tough" on illegals and will tell the agencies to start hitting the meat plants, factories, etc. Then, when we started taking away their labor (even though it was always temporary), the companies start whining and the reins are pulled back.
I actually saw this happen: the INS investigations office in Bloomington, MN was in a big building with multiple tenants (not the federal building). There was a company contracted by building management to do the cleaning at night. It usually ended up that some of their employees were illegal. When the agency was told to "get tough," they'd round up people from their own building's cleaning crew. Otherwise, they let them be. It wasn't the law that dictated whether or not the cleaning guy could stay and work. It was politics. And while the owner of the cleaning company was probably not the kind of guy to have any influence, you can imagine the kinds of influence that DID come into play when you have politically-induced selective enforcement of the law (or don't) across the entire country.
So the only consequences were for the illegals, themselves. They got sent back, but were not criminally prosecuted or even "deported," per se. They were "Voluntarily Returned." By agreeing to go home on Uncle Sam's dime, they avoided criminal liability.
And they were back inside a month, anyway. If you want to make an illegal immigrant's day, arrest him inside the Hormel meat plant where he's working - in Minnesota, and in February - and tell him he's getting a free plane ride back to Mexico or Central America. A little vacation in the sun and, once he can feel his toes again, he's back.
So the entire "build a wall" campaign promise was probably the dumbest one I've seen in my lifetime.
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