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Terrorists At The Border

MSM offers this as a defense for Democratic push to NOT fund the wall.

We spend $7+ Billion on TSA every single year. How many terrorists were caught at airports before we instituted TSA?

Dear MSM, how many is too many? How many did it take for 9/11?
This fact check is from mainstream media. Have a look to decide who is playing politics with the issue.
Idiots on TV who think border security fight is about nothing.
Watch Mitch McConnell narrate the historical stance of Democratic leadership (including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer) on border fence and security, and you decide who is politicizing the issue now, and to what purpose.
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1. The Case For “The Wall”

“The Wall” is a metaphor for a robust fence that, when combined with practicable monitoring and patrolling, is impenetrable enough to act as a robust deterrent against anyone who tries to breach it.
2. The case for funding such a barrier is distilled in this mainstream media report.
3. First and foremost, the purpose of such a barrier is, and has to be, the elimination of untold human misery, on both sides of the border, caused by the hope of illegal entry into the U.S. by those who are desperate enough to risk it.
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Fair Share of Taxes

Don't buy the socialist crap about who does and doesn't pay 'fair share' of taxes. The burden of taxes in the U.S. falls fairly and squarely on the upper income brackets.

As I have written extensively, the ONLY way to grow govt revenue is through GDP growth.
1. Paul Krugman has penned a fallacious article on "The Economics of Soaking the Rich" to suck up to and normalize Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brain-fart about raising the marginal tax rate to 70-80%.
nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opi…
2. Krugman's sole appeal to authority is an arcane 2011 academic paper by economists Diamond & Saez in which, based on much mathematical skulduggery, they opined that the optimal marginal tax rate for the U.S. is ... 73%. I am surprised they rounded it to a whole percentage.
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Why You Can't Raise Tax Rates
Besides the fact that raising tax rates doesn't raise govt revenue (it loses revenue), here's the political reason there is no real support for raising tax rates in either party, except among unhinged leftists who are a minority.
Trust in Government Has Plunged Precipitously
In 1958, 73% of Americans said they trusted the federal government to do the right thing most of the time. By 2017, that had fallen to 18%. Growing distrust of government is a long-term trend that predates Trump. Both parties sucked.
If You Wonder Why Trust In Government Has Plunged

While it happened over a long time, before Trump walked into the White House, the sorry saga of govt officials behaving badly at the highest levels of our govt agencies continues apace. Read this and weep.
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