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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Undocumented Immigrants Contribute Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes a Year

If he actually succeeds in doing this, guess who’s going to be made to fill in that hole.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you lived in the 80's, you know where you're going with this.

Prisons. Good old indentured servitude.

Get ready for more jaywalking arrests.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

Obviously the answer is to tax billionaires, but that's never going to happen.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is step one to collapsing Social Security and Medicare.

Knee cap all the funding from folks who never collect on it, then say, see? It’s collapsing earlier than we thought.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Illegals aren't growing crops, prisons step in, now prisons are growing crops, now prisons are profiteering from growing crops, higher food prices despite the ""free"" labor as they have conflicts with farmers...

messy messy messy situation

Great if you own a prison, tho.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Isn't this basically the start of how megacorps destroyed the agriculture industry in Cyberpunk?

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago

The funny part is that that is still likely less that a bus load of billionairs actually paying their taxes like the rest of us do.

[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Kids that aren’t even born yet (debt spending).