Most if not all illegal immigrants do not pay for health insurance, but still get sick/injured and have other needs that require medical attention. They go to the hospitals for this treatment, and even if they have to wait in an emergency room for 10 hours they will get treated and dismissed. The hospitals cost for this treatment is not free, and not tax deductible. It is a cost that gets divied up and passed along to everyone that can pay for their healthcare through insurance. There are millions of illegal immigrants in this country that the average jo-shmo tax payer supports every year. I am not saying that we need to remove all of these people, because of the harm it will do to the economy, but something needs to be done about stopping the process because the cost are rising for us citizens.
I don't know about you all, but my budget is already tight and spending more on taxes to pay for more illegals makes me choose between food and electricity sometimes.
Well said. The idea that any and all species are exactly the same today as they were eons ago is quite simply ludicrous. If the goal is to educate people strictly on evolutions process, then for now it is much simpler to ignore "the beginning" and move on to more recent times. I had a roommate that believes like I do in a heavenly beginning, but he refused to believe in carbon datings accuracy. Therefor he completly ignores the fossil record. He is the kind of person that needs to be educated by not starting with an absolute beginning that he dismisses as inaccurate, but instead to start in a more modern era and work backwards through human history. If a rational person comes to a conclusion on there own when faced with the evidence we now have, they surely cannot ignore evolutions affect on all species.
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Most if not all illegal immigrants do not pay for health insurance, but still get sick/injured and have other needs that require medical attention. They go to the hospitals for this treatment, and even if they have to wait in an emergency room for 10 hours they will get treated and dismissed. The hospitals cost for this treatment is not free, and not tax deductible. It is a cost that gets divied up and passed along to everyone that can pay for their healthcare through insurance. There are millions of illegal immigrants in this country that the average jo-shmo tax payer supports every year. I am not saying that we need to remove all of these people, because of the harm it will do to the economy, but something needs to be done about stopping the process because the cost are rising for us citizens. I don't know about you all, but my budget is already tight and spending more on taxes to pay for more illegals makes me choose between food and electricity sometimes.
Well said. The idea that any and all species are exactly the same today as they were eons ago is quite simply ludicrous. If the goal is to educate people strictly on evolutions process, then for now it is much simpler to ignore "the beginning" and move on to more recent times. I had a roommate that believes like I do in a heavenly beginning, but he refused to believe in carbon datings accuracy. Therefor he completly ignores the fossil record. He is the kind of person that needs to be educated by not starting with an absolute beginning that he dismisses as inaccurate, but instead to start in a more modern era and work backwards through human history. If a rational person comes to a conclusion on there own when faced with the evidence we now have, they surely cannot ignore evolutions affect on all species.