There are some qualified buyers, but the prices of fixed-up repos are still low enough to discourage new building. I still don't see much of that happening. There is a little bit in areas buyers have found incredible lot deals where they want to live.
Arizona politicians have found a way to help squash the recovery. SB 1070 is working. Illegal aliens and their families are moving out of Arizona taking their spending with them. These people buy homes, rent apartments, and spend money on all kinds of things. Many pay taxes through payroll deductions, sales taxes, and property taxes, just like the rest of us.
I'm all for just laws, but I'm for actually allowing legal immigration. It doesn't make sense just to say, "Let them follow the rules and come legally." There is virtually no legal immigration allowed from Mexico, Guatemala, etc.
To those who say we just want to follow the law, as if being legal were the same as being right, I remind them that until a few years ago there was a law in Missouri which made it illegal for my people to live in that state. It said that "'my people' were an abomination and should be "exterminated, or driven from the state." Should every other state have "mirrored" the extermination order? After all, it was the law of the land. That law worked too. And there was no "amnesty plan", no loopholes to let "those people" stay in Missouri while they got their legal papers. Just like today, there is no alternative to moving out.
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I respectfully disagree. While I agree that illegals leaving the state will have a negative economic impact in some regards, it is unclear if this will have a net benefit or net loss overall for the State. If the law causes too much difficulty for the cartels and they move their routes through other states, this would save a substantial amount of money for the State. It also makes a difference as to whether or not illegals generate more than they consume. Welfare costs the state quite a bit of money. It is difficult to tell if the amount of sales tax revenue generated will actually be greater than the amount of government services consumed.
I agree that the Federal immigration law needs to be altered to allow more legal immigration. At the same time, however, there are very valid reasons to have an immigration process. Without the process, we cannot identify good citizens from bad. We are all aware of the bad citizens from Mexico in our State. I have to watch my back in all of my favorite hunting spots now since they are all within heavy drug trafficking corridors. We also have an abnormally high amount of immigration compared to other time periods in our Country. Welfare programs have expanded greatly. This provides incentive for immigration when we border a country who has many residents below the poverty level. With millions of people living in poverty, an open border, and free welfare benefits it is a recipe for immigration disaster. Our system is flawed and broken. We cannot sustain the immigrants by taxing our residents. We cannot afford to have this mass corruption.
We can only have open immigration if we remove access to welfare benefits that artificially inflate the number of people who want to immigrate, secure the border against drug traffickers and human smugglers, and do background checks on those who want to immigrate so that we can weed out the criminals and those who are not immigrating to become Americans. We should be merciful as much as possible, but at the same time mercy cannot rob justice. There has to be a balance.
respectfully, Jaren
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