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This week a group of illegal immigrants staged a protest in Chicago saying "we were promised safe living conditions, but our rights have been violated. Their demands include free housing, paid job training, and access to food, water, and safe neighborhoods. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) admitted to being "peeved at the ingratitude of these freeloaders. I already signed legislation making illegal immigrants a protected class of people. Illinois was the first state to force landlords to rent to illegal migrants. They have privileges that not even native-born citizens have. What more do we owe them?" A spokesperson for the...

Donald Trump's rule changes the so-called "public charge" rule that withholds green cards from immigrants dependent on government services. Federal immigration law says that immigrants desiring permanent legal status can be denied if they are likely to become a "public charge."Previously the government defined "public charge" as anyone receiving cash benefits. Those getting food stamps or housing assistance were exempt. The rule change means that green cards will only go to those who are free of dependency on government. New York and Illinois sued the administration over the change and federal judges issued injunctions preventing the rule from being...

A New York woman is being scrutinized and praised after people learned that she used a dating website to obtain $1,200 a month in free meals. According to Business Insider, 23-year-old Jessica Sporty was deep in debt. Sporty had difficulties living on her $45,000 annual salary after spending nearly $1,500 a month in rent, paying her credit card bill, and buying food. So she hatched up a plan and signed up with the popular online dating site Match.com so she could quickly go on five dates a week. Sporty even maintained a spreadsheet with detailed information on each of her...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Police said a woman accused of trespassing after panhandling complaints told police that she wasn't panhandling, she was trick-or-treating. According to arrest records, officers were dispatched to a Dairy Mart in the 1300 block of Dixie Highway on Monday on reports of a woman panhandling. Police said that 44-year-old Michelle McGill had been warned preciously that day to stay away from the business, which has signed a trespassing waiver against her. When officers approached McGill, she became irate and began screaming at the officers and ignoring their commands to stop, police said. When asked why she had...

he Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters. For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad. They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.

We all bristle at people who put themselves ahead of the common good, whether it is by evading taxes, shirking military service, cheating on bus fares or littering. Many of us will go out of our way to shame, shun or otherwise punish them, researchers have shown. That's how we foster a community that benefits everyone, even at some cost to ourselves. Economists analyzing ingredients of the social glue that holds us all together wonder whether that public spirit of rebuke and reward is an innate human value or a byproduct of the particular society in which we live. Until...

Gordon Brown's complex tax system means that millions of people find it more attractive to stay at home rather than go to work, a new report said yesterday. The conclusion is a serious blow for the Chancellor, who has frequently claimed that his tax credits scheme is reducing poverty and encouraging people back to work. It will also heap more pressure on the Conservative Party to overhaul the present tax edifice — regarded as the most convoluted in British history. The Institute for Fiscal Studies report showed that Mr Brown's tax credits system — intended to encourage more people to...

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland taxpayers deserve to know how much the state is paying to subsidize education, housing and health care for illegal aliens before it breaks the budget, two Republican delegates from Baltimore County say. "We are losing money in taxes; we are losing money on education; and we are losing money on health care," said Delegate Patrick L. McDonough. "And at the same time, [illegal immigrants] are sending money back to their homelands to the tune of $22 million and they are freeloading on the system and exploiting us."

This may be a repost but an important one.Alexandria, VA) – Even though President Bush took the oath of office last week, taxpayers still have one piece of unfinished business from the election: some federal lawmakers – including many seeking higher office – received thousands of dollars in salary overpayments for being away from their jobs during 2003 and 2004. According to a study released today by the 350,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU), an obscure federal statute still on the books requires Congressional absentees to forfeit their pay unless they or a family member are ill; but leaders have failed...

Out of Washington but never out of the spotlight, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband, former president Bill Clinton, and daughter, Chelsea, are expected to arrive for a Vineyard vacation on Saturday. The Clintons have been regular Vineyard visitors, but it was their visit in August 1993, during Mr. Clinton’s first term in office, that attracted the most attention. Attention these days is on Mrs. Clinton, now a popular U.S. senator from New York, a best selling author, and if political pundits are correct, a future Democratic presidential candidate. In her only scheduled public appearance, Mrs. Clinton will sign copies...

Tancredo rips Owens' stance on immigrant By Michael Riley and Mike Soraghan Denver Post Staff Writers Sunday, September 29, 2002 U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo is lashing out at Gov. Bill Owens and other politicians from both parties who have jumped on the welcome wagon for illegal immigrant and honor student Jesus Apodaca. Owens had been careful not to criticize his fellow Republican when he announced his support for special legislation to resolve the 18-year-old's immigration problems by granting him permanent residency status. But Tancredo was less cautious with his retort, demonstrating how deeply the case has split the GOP. "The...