This whole take more from me and give it to them. It's called righting the economy. If the current capitalistic approach we have has all the profits going to the top, we need to tweek it. It seems to me today, rich people aren't paying enough in taxes but middle class people are paying more than we should.I am not poor either, however, I fail to see how Republicans favor anything other than not taking more from me and giving it away to those that don’t want to work and those that shouldn’t be in our country in the first place. I don’t vote Republican for tax breaks, I vote Republican for common sense fiscal and social policies. These are same policies that give me and everyone else in the country the opportunity to be “rich“ in the first place with hard work and ingenuity. Voting for freebees so more Democrats can stay in their parent’s basement doesn’t seem like a winning formula for our country.
I base that on how they are doing and how the middle class is doing. Is the middle class big fat and thriving? It should be. When it is, you don't have to worry about the poor because most of them deserve to be poor. But anyone who wants to work can get out of poverty. My dad was an uneducated immigrant. Got a union job at Ford and could raise a family of 4 on that one income. Good healthcare benefits too. Very important.
Today the largest employer in America is Walmart. Low wages and no healthcare is what a guy like my dad would get today if he came from another country.
So today we don't want low wage immigrants coming because they compete with our low wage workers. So it will bring wages up. But clearly Ford needed my dad because they couldn't find Americans who would work those hours or that hard. People at a culinary arts program could have taken that job but they wanted to be chefs at expensive restaurants, that no longer exist today. My dad was smart and took the steady union wages, benefits and pension. And unions brought all wages up. As union membership declined, so did wages. No coincidence.
Today not everyone is going to make GM, Ford Chrysler type wages. My dad today would make $15 hr. And you have to go to college to make more, which we wouldn't be able to afford today. We could back then. And my brother became a VP of HR. One generation and we are VP's of your fortune 500 companies. Clearly America needs immigrants. Otherwise we're gong stupid bigly.