Do you think people confuse "Land Of The Free"?

Question

with "Please take advantage of the USA"?

Answer 1

What "advantage" can they possibly take of this LaLa land in nowdays? Lol :D

Answer 2

WOW after reading Game Over's answer, seems like it's the other way around!

Answer 3

im pretty sure 'land of the free' does not imply free, as in free of charge things. i think it means a land of liberated people.

Answer 4

ya but nothing is free. i think the goverment sucks.

Answer 5

Actually Rachel, that would imply they actually stopped to think about it.

There are lots of competing statistics out there, and anyone can find sources to support their position.

I too have argued the cost angle.  I believe it to be true by the way, because anyone with half a brain and 1 semi-working eye that lives in Texas, NM, California or Arizona knows the cost.......whatever taxes illegals pay it does NOT cover what their costs are and the rest of us are paying more to pay for them.  

It really is that simple.

From the Center for Immigration Studies:

A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies is one of the first to estimate the impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Based on Census Bureau data, the study estimates that households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they pay in taxes. These figures are only for the federal government; costs at the state and local level are also likely to be significant. The study also finds that if illegals were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow to nearly $29 billion.

Among the findings:

Illegal alien households are estimated to use $2,700 a year more in services than they pay in taxes, creating a total fiscal burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in a single year.

Among the largest federal costs: Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).

If illegal aliens were legalized and began to pay taxes and use services like legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual fiscal deficit at the federal level would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total federal deficit of $29 billion.

With nearly two-third of illegals lacking a high school diploma, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments — not their legal status or their unwillingness to work.

Amnesty increases costs because illegals would still be largely unskilled, and thus their tax payments would continue to be very modest, but once legalized they would be able to access many more government services.

The fact that legal immigrants with little schooling are a fiscal drain on federal coffers does not mean that legal immigrants overall are a drain. Many legal immigrants are highly skilled.

Because many of the costs are due to their U.S.-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth, barring illegals themselves from federal programs will not significantly reduce costs.

Although they create a net drain on the federal government, the average illegal household pays more than $4,200 a year in federal taxes, for a total of nearly $16 billion.

However, they impose annual costs of more than $26.3 billion, or about $6,950 per illegal household.

About 43 percent, or $7 billion, of the federal taxes illegals pay go to Social Security and Medicare.

Employers do not see the costs associated with less-educated immigrant workers because the costs are spread out among all taxpayers.

Answer 6

I think USA is the land of the " Fee"

pay your fees, bills and taxes.

Answer 7

Oh yes, and they come in flocks to do so.

Answer 8

Frequently.

And "I Live", yes, "they" did and so did the Germans who overtook England because the French overtook Germany cuz Spain overtook France cuz ROME CONQUERED SPAIN!

It only took 2000 years. But then I guess that's different? How?

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Answer 9

They mean liberated in the sense of free. Besides, since someone brought up native americans, the us government owes then of a bill that's over a billion dollars from a land deal that was mad over a 150 years ago that was never paid yet.

Answer 10

unfortunatly,there are some people out there that take advantage.

Answer 11

Yes, I think they must confuse it to mean "land of the freebies".

Answer 12

"land of the free", well I don't think they really care what that means, they are just looking for any reason to justify illegal immigration, even bringing up stuff that happened way back before any of us were born like the Indians. Pretty lame, isn't it.

Answer 13

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Funny, the golden door is lite up and many decided to kick in the golden door, or just bypass the golden door and do in the back door, how rude.  The darn thing is lite up, it's easy to see, no excuses LOL.

Answer 14

Gee. you'd think they'd have posted a sign like this on a giant statue...

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Answer 15

yeah those jerks, picking our fruit and washing our dishes, that was the job i wanted, now illl never get it...........

they are a vital part of our economy only fools dont see that

Answer 16

like they took advantage of the indians