Tourists pay taxes too — sales taxes, hotel taxes, gas taxes and more — but that doesn’t give them political representation. Congressional representation is ultimately political power exercised by elected officials chosen by U.S. citizens. It determines House seats, votes in Congress, influence over federal spending and policy, and a state’s Electoral College weight for roughly ten years. So the question isn’t whether people here illegally should pay taxes. The question is whether people who cannot vote and who have no lawful permanent status should nevertheless increase a state’s political power for the next decade.
@greg_price11 Policy is not made for one individual. Someone may understandably view birthright citizenship through the lens of his own family history, but the question is what rule best serves the country as a whole. Personal experience can inform policy; it should not determine it.
@DeepLeaksHQ We have $40 trillion in debt and most of the US citizens can’t afford their own healthcare. Why the hell are we giving money away to other countries so they get healthcare?
She speaks terrible English, and she clearly doesn’t want him to ask a question because she can’t come up with a follow up response. She can only read what her staff wrote on the paper, but it’s rich listening to her question the trustworthiness and integrity of anyone’s testimony when no one actually believes she wasn’t involved in all the Somalia fraud that’s taken place. How has she not been indicted on Rico charges?
Maybe we need to look at the schools. Two major surveys, decades apart, tell a troubling story about school safety:
• 2005 Gallup Youth Survey: “violence, fighting and school safety” was the #1 problem teens said their schools faced — cited more than any other specific issue.
• 2026 YouthTruth survey of nearly 200,000 students: only 56% of students in grades 6–12 said they felt safe at school, and fewer than half said students were generally safe from violence.
Twenty years apart, students are still telling us the same thing: safety matters.
Dems were so worried about voter integrity in Serbia that during the Biden error they allotted almost $3 million to securing safe elections.
On Aug. 9, 2023, Biden’s USAID awarded $2.895 MILLION in U.S. federal funds to the Serbian NGO CRTA for an “Elections Integrity Activity.” The award period was 2023–2028.
The project included:
• monitoring voter rolls and voter-registration issues
• deploying more than 3,000 election observers
• monitoring 1,000 polling stations — 500 across Serbia and 500 in Belgrade
• sending long-term observers across 168 cities and municipalities
• monitoring activity outside polling stations with mobile teams
• monitoring national television coverage and political pluralism
• monitoring election administrators and oversight bodies
• tracking voting procedures and turnout
• investigating alleged pressure on voters
• investigating alleged misuse of public resources
• examining alleged election-law violations and irregularities
Nearly $2.9 million in American taxpayer money for election-integrity monitoring in Serbia during the Biden administration. Those are the facts.