Posted on 03/18/2024 12:37:08 PM PDT by John Semmens
New York City is paying $387 per day to house and feed each migrant household in taxpayer-funded shelters. Over the course of a year this amounts to $141,255 per household. The median household income in the US is $75,000. A full-time minimum-wage job pays less than $15,000.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo) asked Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra "why workers who have to live on less should should be taxed so much for the less than lavish accommodations being provided for illegal immigrants?"
Becerra said "we aren't letting New Yorkers bear all the burden of supporting these new Americans. We are chipping in as much federal aid as we can to help ease their burden."
"Doesn't federal aid also come from taxes on working Americans?" Barrasso asked. "Why do the tents and other shelters cost so much? Why should working Americans who are struggling to support themselves in the highly inflationary Bidenomics economy have to bear this heavy burden?"
"Well, your assumption that taxpayers are bearing this burden is incorrect," Becerra replied. "As you should know, federal spending exceeds tax receipts. We are borrowing the money to cover the needs of these migrants rather than putting the burden on taxpayers."
"Doesn't this borrowed money have to be paid back with interest?" Barrasso reasoned.
"Not necessarily," Becerra answered. "As we have seen, President Biden took action to avert burdening students with paying back money they borrowed to attend college. He could take similar action to save the government from having to payback the money we borrowed to aid these migrants. Then no one would have to bear the costs for what we're providing for them."
In other migrant news, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) prevented a Republican-sponsored bill that would automatically detain illegal aliens charged with violent crimes from getting to the floor for a vote. Durbin explain his action, saying that "immigrants come here for a better life. Part of a better life for some of them is enjoying the same no-bail privileges that American-born criminals are given."
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Libtards want to pay more and make the newcomers feel welcome in the libtard sanctuaries for stupidity
Seems to me these politicians speak with forked tongues.
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