Under a somewhat socialist society (like ours,) money is taken by force from people in the form of taxes and then redistributed. The redistribution is rarely based on the amount of money paid in taxes - this is important. Because you receive largely the same benefits regardless of taxes paid, people who are here illegally and paying next to no taxes receive the same benefits as those paying taxes at the normal rate. What bugs me about many Democrats position is that they like high taxes on wealthy people, which means individual rich people pay vastly more in actual dollars for their use of roads, bridges, and the availability of welfare and public schooling (which they don't even use.) If you decide to redistribute money by force, why is citizenship a factor? It clearly isn't because non-citizens don't pay enough taxes, because the social programs don't take into account how much taxes you pay. A better solution is to simply have people pay their own way, with non-mandatory charity taking up the slack. This is the libertarian position as I see it, and there is no reason non-citizens can't participate.
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