ON IMMIGRATION
©Chippy's Dad
On the subject of immigration, a few months ago there was an article about Texas regarding Texas and immigrants and how immigrants are supposedly a drain on the Texas budget. The article focused on medical services. The article was sent to me by email, and I do not recall its origin.
To begin, the concept that "all people are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" is axiomatic. The rights to life and liberty are not subject to affirmation by a political body. By virtue of being a creature, any person has the right to liberty. How can the right to cross a border be denied to a peaceful person? Liberty includes the right to cross the border. If a rabbit is free to cross the border then a human is free to do so, period.
Borders are totally arbitrary and fictitious lines drawn by greedy politicians to enhance their control over people. As our borders take on an ever more similar appearance to the Berlin wall, the totalitarian noose tightens ever more firmly around our own necks. In a paraphrase of Reagan: Mr. Obama, tear down this wall.
The right of any peaceful person to cross the border is an absolute. Crossing the border, which is a fictitious line, should be as simple as crossing the street. The person crossing the border should not have to give his name or show any identification or be slowed down or intimidated in any other way.
Regarding the effect of immigrants on the state budget, all Texas (or any other state) needs to do is to eliminate every single free "service" provided to immigrants: or to anyone else for that matter. I say no free hospital visits except as a privately owned and operated hospital and staff, without any tax support, choose to offer such free services out of their own resources and free will.
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- All material © Chippy's Dad > > > > Christian, Austrian, Liberal: > > > > > > Of course I am libertarian as many say. A libertarian advocates the freedom philosophy. A liberal breathes toleration of people and the freedom philosophy in the soul as an integral part of being, and regards it as a personal taint when the principle is neglected. A liberal is necessarily a libertarian. A libertarian is not necessarily a liberal. It is quite possible to be consistently a libertarian. I believe I am. Since we are all sinners, it is impossible to be consistently liberal. Libertarianism is in the head. Liberalism is felt in the gut.
"If a rabbit is free to cross the border then a human is free to do so, period."
ReplyDeleteI like that! Very well put.