Raise an eyebrow -- or both of them -- on this. But, then don't close those same eyes.
California has a bill, -- they call it SB 227 -- which would allow those who are commonly called "illegal aliens" to receive unemployment benefits.
"What?" you say. "We are going to give them unemployment even though they aren't even suppose to be here, even though they don't belong in this country to begin with?"
Yes, and it just might be the only fair and honest thing to do. Don't close your eyes to that possibility until you've heard me out.
Or, hear out Shaman Walton, that is. He's the San Francisco Supervisor who knows the facts. So, I invited him here to set you straight.
"We cannot take people's money, take people's taxes, take people's labor, and then deny them the very benefits and rights that they deserve and that they have earned," Walton explains.
Yes, go ahead and argue that the immigrants shouldn't even be here. But, once you've let them in, and once you've given them employment for which they aren't working under the table, that means they are paying taxes. And, when you pay into something, you deserve to get something out of it.
It's the old no taxation without representation argument, and its rooted in the very things this country stood for in the Revolutionary War.
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