The people who employ them tend to be business owners who vote Republican

It's funny how Republicans absolutely never mention the most obvious solution to the "problem" of undocumented workers: pursuing and prosecuting the American citizens who hire them. It's always useless walls and deportations and bullshit like that.

What he couldn't articulate, is that his individual actions don't have any effect the larger systemic problem.
He can't fix anything by not hiring a dozen undocumented people.

He's taking advantage of the problem he complains about. Which might make him a hypocrite. But nothing about the problem would change if he stopped doing either.

I’m not sure that’s true, a lot of the undocumented workers I’ve met have worked in restaurants, and MANY of the owners there are absolutely champagne socialists that push Democratic rhetoric.

Would love to see data on it, but that’s got to be hard to gather, undocumented and all.

I have a strong urge to take you to Boston to make you a cup of a warm beverage created by steeping plant leaves in hot water. I have no idea what's going on, and I'm scared.

We think about that a lot here in DC as politicians from generic Midwestern shitholes dictate local city policy to us 😭

Well, the top 25 wealth hoarding dragons paid 13.6 billion in federal income taxes in a span of 5 years. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
So you were likely only very mildly exaggerating that claim.
And before some ~~class traitor~~boot-licker squeaks up about * the article looks at wealth which isn't taxed, only income is taxed.* 1 that wasn't the point & 2 you don't need income when you have that kind of assets. But they built their wealth by massively benefiting from the society they pay so very little back to.

Probably not. Berkshire Hathaway alone is paying like $10B in taxes every year, and that's just the income taxes of one company. Given how the article considers total taxation, you'd have to think about e.g. all the VAT taxes even the rich cannot totally avoid.

Closing all loopholes and making taxation fair is a great goal though.

But they took our jorbs!!

It depends how you define "billionaire". They may not actually make a billion dollars in income annually. With that said:

Even if you drill down to the top 400 wealthiest taxpayers — data that was publicly available on an annual basis until President Donald Trump killed the report — they paid an effective tax rate of 23.1 percent in 2014. These taxpayers — with $127 billion of income — that year paid $29.4 billion in income taxes, or more than 2 percent of all income taxes, the IRS said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/23/biden-keeps-saying-billionaires-pay-8-percent-taxes-not-really/

I mean that is the goal.

Remove critical human rights and unless you're part of the wealthy class who reaps all the reward, you shouldn't be seen or get any services.

If I had infinite cosmic powers, I'd remove immigrants from countries which hate immigrants for a month. They'd go to some kind of pleasant dimension where all their needs were met, like a really nice holiday. And, back in our world, everything which immigrants work hard to achieve while getting little respect for it wouldn't be happening, and it would be a shitshow.

And then I would make all the people that didn't learn to stop being fuckknuckles from that experience live in their own bellybutton for a month.