Man I'm so glad I'm an ass hat.
Hah the right word I think is "producer". I'm a producer. I produce things, I produce wealth, I produce the means by which a few hundred men and women in three states feed their children. When I disagree with how the government spends my forced charity contribution, there is no force in the universe that will or should even try to shut me up. It's my fucking money, if I don't want to spend it supporting people who just walked into my house without being invited, then fuck those people and they can go back home and wait like every other person in the world. If someone wants to call us names or make it like the whole issue doesn't exist, cool for them, but I'm not going to just shut up because someone likes to pretend a problem doesn't exist or it is no big deal or opposing it makes them a lesser person.
There's no law in the universe that says I have to give to charity, under penalty of prison, in an unlimited way. I'm an immigrant myself, and I don't give a fsck about a single one of these animals who just walk through the open door. All the people who are in charge of closing the door should be hung from a tree for treason too. I'm a producer, and I WANT these people here to come work for me so I can get rid of these cityfolk I hire and fire daily to get the tax break (felons, blacks, gays, EBT cardholders). But there are rules and if folks don't want to follow them, and if other folks don't want to enforce them, this still doesn't change my unwillingness to pay for them to eat while we pretend to "process their asylum claims".
There are just 100m taxpayers in the country. Every BILLION DOLLARS spent by the forced charity program is ten bucks for every one of us. Who wants people rifling through their pockets to take ten bucks? If we have to support even 50% of these (US citizens currently accept forced charity checks at a rate of 50%) 2.5m people who we know crossed during 2023, at current living wage of 23k, that's almost 60b, or 600 bucks for every taxpayer. And that's just the ones we "caught". If the real number is double that, then you're looking at 1200 bucks per taxpayer. And it's not charity you voluntarily contribute to, it's folks walking into your place and demanding it, with government folks reminding you that you either pay or go to the prison. If people want so badly to help people from other countries to have jobs, they can start a 503c charity on the internet in 90 days and donate till they have absolution for their sins. I already pay half my town to not work while I have jobs no one will come work at. No thanks.
1200 bucks is a lot of money to a lot of people who live paycheck to paycheck. Ask them to hand the money over right in front of a TV camera and tell them what it's for and see if they are too ascared to be called a racist or a xenophobe or whatever the kewl name is these days or if they just whip their 1200 bucks out and hand it over. Bet they tell you to fuck off or even better have to use a credit card to come up with the money. Lots of people enjoy demanding that money be taken out of the Treasury for their various crusades, more than 150m people voted in the last Presidential election, but not as many put money into the Treasury, only 100m taxpayers. Not sure that people who vote with my wallet ought to have much say in how my money gets spent.