Easy Recipes

~ Clarissa

As usual, the presidential campaign is getting bogged in the discussions of feel-good non-issues.

It’s obvious that nobody is going to deport 11 million illegals. The cost and the logistics of that would be insane. But there is a huge number of simpletons who are choosing not to notice that any discussion of the mass deportation is a con man’s trick of distracting a mark while reaching into the poor sod’s pocket.

The same purpose is served by the endless discussions of the need to raise taxes on hedge fund managers. I could care less about hedge fund managers. Tax them to the gills, deport them and their anchor baby, track them like FedEx packages – whatever. But don’t talk about raising their taxes like it’s going to change the world.

There are about 7,000 hedge funds in the US. Many of them will go bust this year. Most of them don’t make that much money at all. Raising the taxes on the salaries of their managers should definitely be done but it’s not going to make a major difference to anything.

Easy recipes do not exist. The politician who offers you one is reaching into your pocket while you are distracted with the shiny bauble of a cutesy slogan.

By the way, have you noticed how all these feel-good easy recipes are about inflicting pain on somebody who is supposedly depriving (“robbing” is always the preferred term) you of something? The con man politician needs to convince you that somebody else is robbing you so that you don’t notice that it’s what he’s doing.

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  3. “It’s obvious that nobody is going to deport 11 million illegals”

    True, but that doesn’t mean that the only other option is letting in another 11 million. The big problem with American political discussion is this ridiculous emphasis on false dichotomies (or fools dichotomies as I like to call them).

    I think that unskilled immigration needs to be reigned in and brought under control (which it’s not at present). As you yourself say there are going to be fewer and fewer jobs for the unskilled so there’s no reason to keep inflating their number when that can be controlled.

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    1. Most of these illegals are not even here to stay. They cross the border – as they have done forever – in search of seasonal work and then go back. If there’s no demand for them, they won’t come.

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  4. Abortion, etc. These are non-issues. Especially when the very same people are in favour of the 2nd amendment. A woman’s health issues are discussed with her doctor. Moreover, a lot of people think abortions are a form a contraception.

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