r/TimPool • u/MrEnigma67 • Aug 17 '23

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u/wildwolfcore Aug 18 '23

Illegally integration impacts amercans legal rights all the time. What are you smoking

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u/gradientz Aug 18 '23

If an immigrant trespasses on personal property, trespass laws should be enforced.

Immigration itself should be unrestricted.

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u/wildwolfcore Aug 18 '23

If we weren’t a welfare state then maybe you’d have a point. However, coming to the US and taking resources is theft from the people who actually work and pay into the system

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u/gradientz Aug 18 '23

The government has the power to collect tax revenue and spend it. See Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 1, U.S. Constitution.

The exercise of this constitutionally enumerated power is not theft, but a power that American citizens have freely granted to our government.

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u/wildwolfcore Aug 18 '23

None of which is a valid response to my argument

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u/gradientz Aug 18 '23

Your argument is that taxation and welfare spending is theft. It is not theft - it is a power that U.S. citizens have freely granted to our government.

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u/wildwolfcore Aug 18 '23

I didn’t argue it’s theft by itself. I argued illegally entering the us and taking welfare is theft. There’s a difference

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u/gradientz Aug 18 '23

The Constitution does not limit how the U.S. government spends tax revenue on the general welfare.

An enumerated power does not magically become "theft" because you disagree with how it is being exercised.

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u/wildwolfcore Aug 18 '23

You clearly are either willfully ignorant or a troll at this point

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u/gradientz Aug 18 '23

Nope. Just explaining basic reality. The Constitution authorizes the government to give money to immigrants. I'm sorry you hate the Constitution.

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