1. “Inequality and discrimination towards immigrants” “We the people”, a popular phrase in the United States of America. It was the beginning phrase of the Preamble to the United States Constitution. It was part of the ratified constitution in 1788 saying that the American government was established to serve the people under this country. But which people is it referring to? It was said that those people are only those who voted to ratify it, which was define as free, white men, meaning no women or people of color were given a voice in forming the new government. Many people left their family and went to America in the 1800s. They ventured into the United States because of the vast opportunities available in this country. Although there were no immigrants in America that time, discrimination was widespread here in terms of color. It spread even more when people from other countries were allowed to enter and live within US. Today, nationality and culture are also the norm to experience discrimination. That include immigrants, who has a great contribution to the United States of America’s economy. In fact, according to the Department of Homeland and Security, immigrants work at high rates and make up more than a third of the workforce in some industries. They are also considered as taxpayers just like what the citizens do. They should be considered as part of the Preamble of the U.S Constitution because they are also helping and serving the country. USA as a free country is only applicable to citizens because everyone else, are subject to limitations such as benefits and rights. Government should give an equal treatment between US citizens and immigrants because both categories have the same needs and are doing the same obligation in this country. Immigrants are one of the major reasons for having an overpopulated country. They are bringing their family from their home country to reunite and live with them here in the USA, and once they are together, they will start building a family that will add to the population of America and will also increase the number of people who will need support from the government. Not only immigrants did that, but also US citizens. Citizens brought their partner here in US through IR1 or CR1 petition which is an immigrant visa for a spouse of a US citizen. Aside from that, unlike immigrants who can only petition immediate relative like their child and spouse, US citizens has more rights and power to petition not only their partnes and their child, but they can also sponsor their siblings and parents living abroad which can may further affect population growth. Regardless, the petitioned family member from different category will basically do the same thing when they get here. They will both work, pay taxes, and be a responsible resident, which means they will not be a burden. Population is just a number, but the contribution they can do on this country is much more than a number.  If the US citizens has the righ ...

1. 1. “Inequality and discrimination towards immigrants”
“We the people”, a popular phrase in the United States of
America. It was the beginning phrase of the Preamble to the
United States Constitution. It was part of the ratified
constitution in 1788 saying that the American government was
established to serve the people under this country. But which
people is it referring to? It was said that those people are only
those who voted to ratify it, which was define as free, white
men, meaning no women or people of color were given a voice
in forming the new government. Many people left their family
and went to America in the 1800s. They ventured into the
United States because of the vast opportunities available in this
country. Although there were no immigrants in America that
time, discrimination was widespread here in terms of color. It
spread even more when people from other countries were
allowed to enter and live within US. Today, nationality and
culture are also the norm to experience discrimination. That
include immigrants, who has a great contribution to the United
States of America’s economy. In fact, according to the
Department of Homeland and Security, immigrants work at high
rates and make up more than a third of the workforce in some
industries. They are also considered as taxpayers just like what
the citizens do. They should be considered as part of the
Preamble of the U.S Constitution because they are also helping
and serving the country. USA as a free country is only
applicable to citizens because everyone else, are subject to
limitations such as benefits and rights. Government should give
an equal treatment between US citizens and immigrants because
both categories have the same needs and are doing the same
obligation in this country.
Immigrants are one of the major reasons for having an
overpopulated country. They are bringing their family from
their home country to reunite and live with them here in the

2. USA, and once they are together, they will start building a
family that will add to the population of America and will also
increase the number of people who will need support from the
government. Not only immigrants did that, but also US citizens.
Citizens brought their partner here in US through IR1 or CR1
petition which is an immigrant visa for a spouse of a US citizen.
Aside from that, unlike immigrants who can only petition
immediate relative like their child and spouse, US citizens has
more rights and power to petition not only their partnes and
their child, but they can also sponsor their siblings and parents
living abroad which can may further affect population growth.
Regardless, the petitioned family member from different
category will basically do the same thing when they get here.
They will both work, pay taxes, and be a responsible resident,
which means they will not be a burden. Population is just a
number, but the contribution they can do on this country is
much more than a number. If the US citizens has the right to do
that without receiving any judgement, so does the lawful
immigrant.
Immigrants caused harm and threat to the government and the
people in the United States of America. They are the cause of
trouble and disagreement between the citizens and the
government. Since President Joe Biden took all the
responsibilities in the White House, he puts the welfare of the
immigrant ahead of the welfare of the true people of America.
They often hold rallies for their own sake, they do not think of
the fear they cause to the people around them. But what really
pushed them to do such violence? It is the lack of support they
are getting from the government and the unjustifiable treatment
from the citizens. Lawful immigrants went through the needle
hole before they were granted a visa to enter United States of
America. They waited a long time, some even took 23 years to
get here. The immigration investigated their identity first before
they came here. So why are they being accused of harm and
threat to the country if the US citizens working in immigration

3. themselves, gave the permission to enter. There are religious
groups in the US such as Roman Catholic who fought for the
rights of immigrants. Why? Because their eyes were open, they
saw inequality and unjust allegations as being a member of
terrorist. If you were accused of something you did not do, will
you not defend yourself? And if you see that you are not given
the right you deserve, will you not take any action? Their action
is the result of the treatment they receive from the people and
the government.
Having a huge number of immigrant is the cause of poor
economy. Other funds that should be allocated towards projects
to develop the country have even gone to the benefits that will
be provided to the immigrant. It sounds that the immigrants are
getting all the favor? No. In fact, immigrants are paying taxes
with the same percentage of what the citizens had. They are
working hard, paying their contributions to their health
insurance, and are paying the sales tax too which went through
the government funds for the country. Some immigrants are
building their own business that helped the economy to rise.
Their geographic quality helps native economies reply to
employee shortages, smoothing out bumps that would otherwise
weaken the economy. Therefore, immigrants should not cling to
the accusations that they are the cause of the existence of a poor
economy.
Lawful immigrants are isolating and forming their own
organization and community against government. They were
forming a group so they can still live normally and according to
their culture. Yes, they may have their own culture and
community, but that does not mean they are not open adapting
any other culture. Filipino community is one of the examples, it
was formed not because we are trying to be against the
government nor the citizens, but it was the pride. A pride that
will show wherever we are, we never degraded and
discriminated anyone, and that is how our culture is, we are

4. equal. If immigrants are isolating, then why there are a lot of
Americans who wanted and already adapted other cultures too.
From the way of living, traditions, and even the foods. In other
words, it is not immigrants who isolate themselves, but the
citizens. Citizens must stop labeling such private community as
an organization built against government and Americans,
because it is clearly for family and cultural purposes.
Immigrants are stealing the national identity. The presence of
immigrants distorts the native population’s national identity. As
a result, they worry that they will lose their sense of happiness
to their own nation. Because of immigrants, the characteristic of
a true American has become obsolete. But the real thing is,
American will still be American. And the other nationalities
who are already citizens will remain being characterized to who
and where they came from. Immigrants are not stealing
anything. In fact, they are adapting everything because they
know where to place and categorized themselves. Immigrants
might claim that they are US citizen through naturalization, but
when you ask them about their identity, they will still definitely
say their nationality to where they are born from. There are
popular personalities who are US citizen by birth like Bruno
Mars and Vanessa Hudgens. Whenever they introduced
themselves as Filipino-American, is that considered stealing of
national identity too? No. They just know who they are and the
roots they came from. If a US citizen know his or her identity,
then they have nothing to worry and be threatened about. There
is a big difference between an American by blood and an
American by law and paper.
2. Taxing the Rich
In stereotypical history, America has stood as a beacon of
success, emitting praises of the American Dream with every ray

5. it shone through its economic superiority. However, this
American Dream is a facade. Underneath the promises of wealth
and happiness once promised to expand the country, is the truth
of the economic inequalities that grow day by day. According to
a former U.S. Secretary of Labor, “Despite an economy that's
twice as large as it was 30 years ago, the bottom 90 percent of
Americans remain stuck in the mud.” If America is so full of
prosperity, why are so many of its people barely getting by?
The answer is taxes -- or lack thereof. Affluent corporate
America has been dodging taxes for years, jumping through
loophole after loophole and using their power in corrupt ways.
With their financial authority, they have politicians in the palm
of their hand, resulting in more and more tax cuts for the rich.
As the rich gain more and more money and power, they are
paying less and less in taxes, forcing the tax burden onto those
who are not equipped to handle it. The American government
must impose a heavier tax on the top income earners who have
been avoiding tax responsibility for years, in order to lessen the
burden of taxes on those lower on the financial spectrum and
provide better tax-funded services to the people.
With an imbalance of income and tax rates in America, low -
income families who have less of an ability to pay taxes, end up
with an onerous burden. According to an article from the
New Haven Register
, low-income families are paying more in payroll, property, and
sales tax than they did thirty years ago; whereas, the tax burden
on the most affluent sitting at the top 1%, has decreased by
more than 50%. The reason for this steep decline is tax cuts.
With the political sway and authority many large and successful
corporations hold, many politicians have been throwing tax cuts
in the direction of the rich like candy for decades. Most of these
tax cuts go toward top taxes, estate taxes, tax on capital gains --
essentially, many tax cuts in the past few decades have been for
taxes that only impact the rich, not the rest of the country
(Ingrahm). The justification for these tax cuts that keep most

6. people at the bottom, is that corporations will use that money to
reinvest in the community and provide more jobs with liveable
wages. However, this politically moral justification is no more
than a facade. For example, after the billion dollar company
General Motors received massive tax cuts, they cut 14,000
lower rank jobs and reinvested in their stocks and raised
corporate positions, instead of using the tax cuts for the benefit
of the community as a whole, as was supposedly intended. This
concept of trickle-down economics that politicians have been
using as an excuse to keep the rich above the rest of us is a
ruse. It goes to show how little the government can care about
the American people, sitting idly by while the rich get more rich
and the poor get more poor. Now more than ever, the
government needs to take action and address this, by increasing
taxes for the rich.
Another argument against raising taxes on the wealthy is that
the rich create economic growth for the country as a whole.
Once again, this is a poor attempt at an excuse. During the
1950s and 1960s when corporate and individual taxes for the
rich were much higher and taxes were not as burdensome for the
bottom 90% of Americans, the economy grew much faster and
the middle-class and below was much more successful and
stable than they are today. Nowadays, the economic scale is
completely out of sorts. Individuals who have more than enough
funds to pay their fair share of taxes should be doing so; the
weight of this nation’s taxes should not be drowning those who
cannot afford to deal with them. In Utah as early as the late
1990s, residents earning $5,000-$7,500, living below the
poverty line, paid a shocking 224% of the state’s income taxes.
In comparison, families making $250,000 or more annually paid
only 4.4% of the state’s income taxes that same year; which was
actually a significant
decrease
from the past six years (Harrie). This gap is only getting wider,
and like with taxes, there is also a growing gap when it comes

7. to income. In California, for example, over the past few
decades, economists have recognized a trend: the rich are
getting richer and the poor are getting poorer (Takenouchi).
This trend is not home to just the golden state; it’s all across the
country.
If the American government makes the right choice of taxing
the rich, benefits would fly to all parts of this country. For
example, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant proposed
a progressive tax that would do just this. It would tax Seattle’s
top three-percent of big businesses and families who make at
least $250,000 annually. The proposed tax would bring in tax
revenue to help benefit the local community -- the
whole
community. Seattle is home to several big-name big-dollar
corporations, Amazon coming in at first place, with Jeff Bezos,
the richest man alive, at the very top as CEO. The revenue from
Sawant’s proposed progressive tax would go toward providing
thousands of affordable housing units to address Seattle’s
housing affordability crisis. As the income and tax divide
continues to expand, the issue of homelessness grows. Taxing
the rich is a political, social, and economic issue. As the
pandemic rages on, displacing people, making people lose their
jobs, and increasing the lack of funding for public services,
taxing the rich must be advocated for at once. Along with
helping provide affordable housing units, a quarter of the
money from the proposed tax would go toward converting gas or
electrical homes in Seattle to renewable energy sources, in an
attempt to battle the growing issue of climate change (Office of
the Seattle Mayor). Additionally, not only would this tax
proposal help house those in need of shelter and not contribute
to pollution, this proposal would provide hundreds of jobs.
There would be an abundance of jobs available for construction
workers, for people to install renewable energy to homes, and
more. Tax revenue going toward community services like these
two social and environmental ones, will almost always result in

8. the creation of thousands of jobs nationally, making the
economy healthier and helping more businesses thrive, which is
something corporations shouldn’t be against.
However, corporations were still against these proposals.
Amazon even went as far as to threaten to leave Seattle and
move their headquarters to the neighboring city of Bellevue, so
their higher-ups could avoid being taxed -- the richest man alive
included. Defenders of the rich often argue that taxing them at a
steeper rate than others is unfair and robs them of their hard-
earned salary. However, one version of Councilmemeber
Sawant’s proposal wouldn’t even kick in until the ten millionth
dollar (Golden). Is ten million dollars alone not already enough
profit for these corporations and individuals to live off of and
thensome? Plus, the rate of taxation at that level would be
miniscule and should have no largely detrimental impact on
these already extremely wealthy and successful national
corporations residing in Seattle. Taxing the rich wouldn’t put a
burden
on them; a burden is something negative that falters something,
leaving them on a dirt road in the dark with nothing. Those who
would be taxed by the City of Seattle in this proposal would
remain at the top 1%. -- that would not change. What taxing the
rich
would
do, is lessen the burden on those who cannot afford to falter
every tax season.
Some critics of taxing the rich argue that if the loopholes are
already there to escape taxation, why shouldn’t they use them?
Why doesn’t the rest of America use them? The rich and
wealthy have access to high-priced accounts and tax lawyers
who would be gold medal winners if there were an Olympics for
corrupting the economy. These are the people who find the
hidden deductions and write-offs that keep an evil grin on the
faces of CEOs. 60% of corporations don’t pay income taxes due

9. to excessive tax write-offs. Some corporations in this 60% even
receive ‘negative tax’ rebates. Some end up increasing their
profits, like Amazon, who doubled their profits in 2018 after
not paying one cent in federal taxes. The majority of working
class Americans do not have access to these sources and
benefits. Additionally, despite popular belief that they are not,
most Americans
are
in favor of raising taxes on the rich. According to polls cast on
both sides of the political spectrum, a proposal from
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) to impose a
progressive tax on high income earners was more favorable than
the opposite. Most critics of this proposition are those who
would
be taxed. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, for example,
argued against raising taxes on the rich, claiming it is not what
America wants (Bump). Which America is he talking about?
The America that sits at the top of a skyscraper with the whole
world in their palm, yet still engrossed by greed? Or the
America that works three jobs and is still barely getting by?
With majority support from those who are paying taxes in
America, perhaps the government should listen closer to the
proposals to tax the rich.