🇺🇸 Antoine Tucker for Congress NY-14

7. If we advertise the glories of America how could you expect others to not be drawn to its light? We are not taking their “1%”. Additionally your argument ignores the free market as if it is confined to geographical locations. If the transfer of wealth and jobs...

... are to such a great detriment, let me ask you why any of our 50 states engage in commerce with each other. Geographically speaking, trade between Texas and Oklahoma should hurt either or both of the two states.

8. I do open my doors. Woman with 5 kids and expecting twins needed a place to stay while her husband was in jail for beating her. Me, with a minimum wage job, went out of my way to provide for her and her family until they could get on their feet...

I understand the struggle. You may not be able to sympathize with the less fortunate, but you can at least attempt to empathize. I do love that your idea of a “Punishment” is a casual gesture of humane treatment for me. It precisely shows the dichotomy in our moral views.

9. These next few points are because I do not feel I prevailed in securing a just image of illegal immigrants and their contribution.

10. Lisa Christensen Gee, JD, Senior Policy Analyst, Matthew Gardner, Executive Director, and Meg Wiehe, MPA, State Tax Policy Director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) in a Feb. 2016 report, “Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contributions”...

"Undocumented immigrants contribute significantly to state and local taxes, collectively paying an estimated $11.64 billion a year. Contributions range from almost $2.2 million in Montana with an estimated undocumented population of 4,000 to more than $3.1 billion ...

in California, home to more than 3 million undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants nationwide pay on average an estimated 8 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes (this is their effective state and local tax rate). ...