A Silicon Valley Train Gets Stuck
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A Silicon Valley Train Gets Stuck
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#3Money if fungible. California spends an enormous amount of money on illegal aliens (illegal immigrants). For example, there was an NYT op-ed piece which explained that 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition UC Berkeley.
Thus, the Federal Funds noted in this article were in fact being used to fund people who are residing in this country illegally.
We don't even have enough money for the poor who live in this country legally.
So, for California to get the funding it needs for the train, stop funding illegal aliens K-12 education, healthcare, university education, ....
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#4They should've started high speed rail in the bookends, since any construction there would have immediate benefits for hundreds of thousands of riders, and instill public confidence in the project. That would've helped Caltrain electrification right there.
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#5Money if fungible. California spends an enormous amount of money on illegal aliens (illegal immigrants). For example, there was an NYT op-ed piece which explained that 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition UC Berkeley. Thus, the Federal Funds noted in this article were in fact being used to fund people who are residing in this country illegally. We don't even have enough money for the poor who…
Is there a reason to believe that the distribution of funds vs the economic activity generated by illegal immigrants is significantly different from any other group?
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#6Money if fungible. California spends an enormous amount of money on illegal aliens (illegal immigrants). For example, there was an NYT op-ed piece which explained that 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition UC Berkeley. Thus, the Federal Funds noted in this article were in fact being used to fund people who are residing in this country illegally. We don't even have enough money for the poor who…
Is there a reason to believe that the distribution of funds vs the economic activity generated by illegal immigrants is significantly different from any other group?
I'm not sure how accurate it was, but someone wrote a piece about how there's just no way to measure how much a cost that group of people inflict vs contribute. The title of the article kind of says it all, undocumented and unmeasured.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/undocumented-and-unmeasure...
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#7Money if fungible. California spends an enormous amount of money on illegal aliens (illegal immigrants). For example, there was an NYT op-ed piece which explained that 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition UC Berkeley. Thus, the Federal Funds noted in this article were in fact being used to fund people who are residing in this country illegally. We don't even have enough money for the poor who…
Is there a reason to believe that the distribution of funds vs the economic activity generated by illegal immigrants is significantly different from any other group?
In the U.S. it is illegal for employers to hire illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants have trouble finding work and the majority of them work in low-skill, low-pay jobs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/majority-of-undocumente...
Illegal immigrants generate much less economic activity per person than their legal immigrant counterparts.
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#8Money if fungible. California spends an enormous amount of money on illegal aliens (illegal immigrants). For example, there was an NYT op-ed piece which explained that 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition UC Berkeley. Thus, the Federal Funds noted in this article were in fact being used to fund people who are residing in this country illegally. We don't even have enough money for the poor who…
Support for amnesty and lighter policies against undocumented immigrants comes from both sides of the aisle in CA -- a significant portion of California's economy comes from agriculture in the Central Valley, and almost 100% of the workers there are undocumented. They're a huge net contributor to California's economy.
http://nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-backed-t...
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#9Money if fungible. California spends an enormous amount of money on illegal aliens (illegal immigrants). For example, there was an NYT op-ed piece which explained that 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition UC Berkeley. Thus, the Federal Funds noted in this article were in fact being used to fund people who are residing in this country illegally. We don't even have enough money for the poor who…
You know California is a net contributor to the federal government, right?
By your argument, California could easily afford to pay for it if only Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Montana, and Kentucky were not "mooching" off of it.
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#10Money if fungible. California spends an enormous amount of money on illegal aliens (illegal immigrants). For example, there was an NYT op-ed piece which explained that 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition UC Berkeley. Thus, the Federal Funds noted in this article were in fact being used to fund people who are residing in this country illegally. We don't even have enough money for the poor who…
People are down voting, the but the assessment is a correct one: California citizens need to elect responsible politicians that spend money on people who live in the the US and CA legally instead of those illegally. If they elected responsible politicians that understood this, they would have their train funded.
Taxes should be only spent on people living in the US legally. Not certain why people have a problem with that.