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This crap is just great. Here I am temporarily working at a job with NO benefits at all, but still paying taxes so some illegal might get 'free' health care. So what if my back goes out or I lose a limb, that illegal immigrant gets to have her kid in MY country for 'free' on MY dime.

I'm more in agreement with some other FReepers around here, Bush is nothing more than Bubba-2 and our two party system is corrupt from the inside out.

I wish I could figure a way to 'go underground'. This sh*t stinks!

I wouldn't expect the direction which things are moving to change. People who actually pay federal income taxes have become too small of a demographic group for Washington to care about. The lower rungs of the middle class are being bought and paid for with out tax dollars. Take a look at the "earned" income tax credit. If they make under $30,000 a year and have kids that they probably couldn't afford in the first place, the IRS will send them a check every year, even if they had no federal income tax liability. In recent years, not only has the dollar amount steadily increased, but now it has been expanded to cover daycare expenses.