Comments on: How About a Nice $35 Tomato?

By: Robert Humelbaugh

Robert Humelbaugh — Fri, 25 May 2007 06:06:40 +0000

I’d rather pay higher prices for tomatoes, then the taxes I’ll pay when 12 million people, AND their little bambinos go on welfare, and we pay 50% taxes, on top of all the other tax we pay. They will not bring a net gain to the tax base. They will be a net loss. Who will take it in the teeth?

You and me. Thank Hector for me.

By: Robert Humelbaugh

Robert Humelbaugh — Fri, 25 May 2007 06:06:16 +0000

I’d rather pay higher prices for tomatos, then the taxes I’ll pay when 12 million people, AND thier little bambinos go on welfare, and we pay 50% taxes, on top of all the other tax we pay. They will not bring a net gain to the tax base. They will be a net loss. Who will take it in the teeth?

You and me. Thank Hector for me.

By: LenS

LenS — Mon, 21 May 2007 03:17:53 +0000

Sorry, I’m already paying for that $35 tomato. Just not at the grocery store. I paid for it through higher property taxes because the illegals get the same “free” public education as my kids. I also paid for it through higher medical cost. Try going to a Phoenix emergency room during flu season. Does crime cost a community? Look at what portion of crime is caused in Arizona by illegals. How about the cost of jail for the illegals convicted of a serious crime. Who do you think pays for their incarceration?

If these 12 million illegals were able to get here without a government program, why do people think we need a program to get them back out of the country? Cut of the employment and housing and they will find a way back home. On foot. Just like they got here.

I love the idea of a guest worker program. But you have to apply at the border. You have to pay taxes, follow our laws and learn our language. You have to live up to the same social contracts as the rest of the US citizens.

Sorry for the tirade but I spent too much time trying to teach my children to live by the rules only to see those that don’t get rewarded.

By: Sallie Parker

Sallie Parker — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:27:58 +0000

Oh wait. You said $35 tomato! If Alain Ducasse prepares it, okay.

By: Sallie Parker

Sallie Parker — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:16:29 +0000

The indians and mestizos who make up the Mexican and Central American aliens are almost never devout, practicing Catholics. At least I’ve never met any. As for family-oriented and hard-working… well, most immigrants are like that, at least for the first couple of generations.

As for $15 tomatoes…organic ‘heirloom’ tomatoes, those weird hand-grown green-and-yellow monstrosities that taste like real garden-grown food (unlike the plastic red things picked by illegal aliens and packaged by agribusiness), run about four or five dollars a pound in New York. That’s a three-dollar tomato, at worst. And the (American) growers make a profit!

Cheap food, like cheap Walmart made-in-Red-China-by-slave-labor trinkets, keep some voters happy in the short term. But they are not helpful and they are not necessary.

If we must give up cheap Happy Meals, then let’s do it.