Laskeeze on Nostr: https://youtu.be/1EZ6-Pn9j88?si=3PD5n0B2oRv5mclr Interesting discussion, I'd ...
https://youtu.be/1EZ6-Pn9j88?si=3PD5n0B2oRv5mclr
Interesting discussion, I'd encourage yall to listen. One thing that I've noticed about the border conversation is that a lot of people's frustration seems directed at immigrants themselves, but I think the core issue is welfare (ie, free stuff from the government such as education, medical care) funded by stolen money. If the government stopped giving people (either in general or immigrants specifically) free stuff, I think the issue would resolve itself because people who could earn a living would stay and people who couldn't would leave (why come to America if your family is somewhere else and you don't get any free stuff from America?). This feels like a more reasonable direction to move toward rather than increasing border security, which is also government run and funded by stolen money. I prefer reducing welfare (thereby reducing theft via taxation/inflation) rather than pushing for a government solution (increased border control) to a government problem (immigrants getting free stuff stolen from taxpayers / savers).
Dave Smith pushes back on this idea of cutting welfare with "that's just never gonna happen", which may be true. But I think border security is largely more palatable than cutting welfare because Trump has pushed the border wall idea into the Overton window since 2015; if a prominent politician was pushing minimizing welfare for immigrants for the last decade it might seem more realistic.
Also, I don't trust the government to efficiently select which immigrants deserve an "invite" to the country 😆 and a stronger border necessitates more government overhead to facilitate the legal immigration process.
So in sum I prefer solutions that reduce the size of the state rather than one that potentially hands more power over to the state.
They cover this specific point starting about 1 hr 15 min in btw
Thoughts?
Interesting discussion, I'd encourage yall to listen. One thing that I've noticed about the border conversation is that a lot of people's frustration seems directed at immigrants themselves, but I think the core issue is welfare (ie, free stuff from the government such as education, medical care) funded by stolen money. If the government stopped giving people (either in general or immigrants specifically) free stuff, I think the issue would resolve itself because people who could earn a living would stay and people who couldn't would leave (why come to America if your family is somewhere else and you don't get any free stuff from America?). This feels like a more reasonable direction to move toward rather than increasing border security, which is also government run and funded by stolen money. I prefer reducing welfare (thereby reducing theft via taxation/inflation) rather than pushing for a government solution (increased border control) to a government problem (immigrants getting free stuff stolen from taxpayers / savers).
Dave Smith pushes back on this idea of cutting welfare with "that's just never gonna happen", which may be true. But I think border security is largely more palatable than cutting welfare because Trump has pushed the border wall idea into the Overton window since 2015; if a prominent politician was pushing minimizing welfare for immigrants for the last decade it might seem more realistic.
Also, I don't trust the government to efficiently select which immigrants deserve an "invite" to the country 😆 and a stronger border necessitates more government overhead to facilitate the legal immigration process.
So in sum I prefer solutions that reduce the size of the state rather than one that potentially hands more power over to the state.
They cover this specific point starting about 1 hr 15 min in btw
Thoughts?