It’s interesting what you are saying about the Tories taxing you to death because here the Democrats are the party of taxes. I don’t know enough about the UK to speak on your politics, but over here we do have more freedom and that’s what most of us are looking to protect. Can’t tell you the number of immigrants I’ve talked to, known and worked with that still think the US (with all its flaws) is the best place to be able to have a chance at fulfilling a dream. People from Asia, Eastern Europe, South and Central America that came here and have been able to make a much better life for themselves. Obviously your mileage may vary.
Could it be that those immigrants who came from Asia, Eastern Europe, South and Central America came from beginning’s far worse than the lowest in the States, what they can earn in America is much more than what they could earn in their own countries, perhaps as much as three times more ?
It happens here in the UK, where immigrants come in mainly from Eastern Europe because they can earn triple what the get in their homelands, even tho it’s minimum wage, £8.72ph if your over 25, £4.55 if under 18, still chicken feed if you consider the standard of living of the country, basically a pittance to the indigenous ppl, but to immigrants it’s quite a wedge from what they are used to,
Oh and by the way, if your in the UK on a working visa, any tax you pay can be reclaimed, so it’s a real carrot for those who come here, whereas the indigenous ppl get shafted time and again, since that f***in bi*ch Thatcher killed off the biggest union (the Miners) the UK government has systematically bullied the working classes into submission,(particularly Tories) any union we have now are no more powerful than a parish council, so the ordinary working man/ woman have no say, in matters relating to wages or disputes within your place of work, and now that’England’ (not Scotland) voted to come out of Europe it will get worse.
I think you will find there are similarities between the UK & the States, reason being the States are predominantly a capitalist state, where here in the UK the Gov want it to become one, hence all the privatisation of major services like Trains, Telecommunications, water, Post office (mail) almost all the national services, the one they haven’t got yet is the NHS, National Health Service, that belongs to the ppl, but guess what the Tories want privatise that too so they can claim Wealth before health too, the Kunts.