cpurkiser

Early Retiree from Silicon Valley. Angel Investor. Servant of two Maine Coon cats. Space nerd.

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@WaTxCa @TheGreenOldDill That's one explanation. The more logical explanation is that an Air Force intelligence officer who gets promoted to a General is actually intelligent.

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@myisonly @ProfDBernstein Yes, citizens can vote so what? In return, the US gets to tax them on income earned anywhere in world, even if they never spend a day in the US. Since they come from wealthy families, on average, they'll contribute more than they collect.

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Exactly, it is win-win. They fly back home; some will want to go to college here, where they will pay full-price tuition, and some will stay. Almost all will be wealthy, educated, and some will be skilled. Not folks that will need any type of welfare. If they stay home, they are subject to US taxation. For a country like Saudi Arabia, which has no income tax, that means all the children of rich princes will pay billions to the US in taxes, while living in Saudi Arabia

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Constitutionally, stare decisis is a pretty important concept. Although it is probably true that the founders didn't consider it. It seems that the FTC, SEC, etc., act more like a judicial branch than an executive branch; they penalize folks for breaking laws that the agencies mostly write.

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@BothaBoy @Noahpinion To get a Visa from Nigeria, you needed to post a $15K bond. I'm not sure what the issue is with rich Nigerian have their babies in the US?

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What exactly is the problem? You have to either be rich to get a tourist visa from a poor country, or be middle class from a developed country to not need a visa to come to the US. One of those people has a baby in the US and is a citizen, so what? Is there an epidemic of Japanese or EU citizen having their babies in the US?

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@theshahofchi @AngelaBelcamino The US's. If someone can be deported or jailed, they are subject to US jurisdiction. A diplomat can't be jailed.

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@waysandmeans71 @swd2 @IamonEUside But Fred's parents were undocumented immigrants from Germany without birthright citizenship. Fred's parents weren't citizens, and so Fred wouldn't have been a citizen, and his mother wouldn't have been granted citizenship so quickly.

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@CatLvr5303 @stigmatajane @sports_tammy I agree, possibly Congress could change the law, but more likely, you would need to change the 14th Amendment. But the more important question is why? All the data show that children of immigrants contribute greatly to America's economy and culture.

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@slcmof You have to be pretty wealthy to get a tourist visa to the US, much less pay for a hospital delivery. If they go back to their home country, we can tax them. If they move back here, we still tax them. I'm missing the problem.

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@waysandmeans71 @swd2 @IamonEUside But none of his grandparents were born in the US, so his Dad wouldn't have been a citizen when Trump was born.

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It is really hard to get a tourist visa from a country like Guatemala. Basically, you need to be rich to get one. I'm fine with children of rich folks becoming US citizens. Having rich people move to the US is not a bad thing. Even better, most will stay in their home country, and then we can tax them. Win-Win

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@CatLvr5303 @stigmatajane @sports_tammy So how are those countries doing economically? Way worse than the US. Immigration is good for a country's economy; smart countries understand that, stupid ones shrink and become irrelevant, see Japan.

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How has the UK fared since eliminating birthright citizenship in 1983? Pretty shitty. Vibrant, growing countries welcome immigrants; declining countries shun them. Most countries in the Americas have birthright citizenship, and they've done better than countries in the old world.

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I'll be donating to most Democratic Senate campaigns in swing states. But Plantner is such a crappy candidate that he has no business being in the Senate. Plus, Susan Collins votes with the Democrats nearly half the time. She has ratings below 50% from both the far left and far right groups.

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@Menarewhipped1 @bmoreabsurd @Geiger_Capital The sole exclusion is people who are ambassadors and their families. The 14th Amendment describes these people as "subject to the jurisdiction" [of the US]. Ambassadors can't be arrested in the US. For everyone else, if you are born here, you are a citizen, full stop.

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@DJSnM @SandyofCthulhu It is like business with a mission: reduce plastic pollution or make healthy food. First, you have to make a profitable business, and then you can save the planet. Make games fun; everything else will follow.

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No, we're really lucky, because without immigrants, we don't have an increase in population to support Medicare and Social Security for seniors. Nor a workforce to build houses, pick crops, or work dirty food processing jobs. If Republicans really want legal immigrants, they would have passed any of the numerous bipartisan immigration laws that fixed our broken legal immigrations.