Ann Coulter Is Right About The Republican Establishment And Immigration Reform

Wow! Ann Coulter blisters the Republican establishment on immigration reform.
The title of the article reflects one of her most aggressive warnings  to the Republican establishment: IF THE GOP IS THIS STUPID, IT DESERVES TO DIE*

I have never seen the gloves come off with such relish involving direct accusations from prominent conservative, but usually dependable Republican cheerleaders,  that support for the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill on the Republican side is being driven by business interests.

We have said as much in several columns, but that’s us. There seems to have been an unwritten rule among much of the big-name conservative commentariat, acting as vassals, not to bite the hand perceived to feed them.  Of course even more pathetic is the Republican leadership that is actually charged with promoting Republican principles and policies.

This publication has made it its purpose to not let squishy Republicans off the hook.  Ann Coulter is certainly no shrinking violet but we do not remember her pointing out the conflict of interest regarding business interests on this matter before. We welcome her to the fold.

Coulter refers to a poll(s) that suggest Hispanics are not as hip about immigration reform, per se, as one might expect. The reason suggested by Coulter (this is our embellishment of her anecdotal reference) goes something like this:  Juanita realizes that there are X jobs for her skill level.  She is getting by.  More immigration, illegal or legal, will be competition for her job and depress her wages.  What too many Hispanics voters want (probably predominantly welfare dependent women,  just like all Democrat vote categories) is expanded benefits, welfare. On that they join the Democrat club.

And so Republican efforts to court Hispanics with immigration reform will not get many votes, and will hurt far more with base Republican voters, including the substantial free enterprise, small government, social conservative Hispanic American voters that help comprise our base. 

We have warned about the adverse effects of panicked and superficial advice from the Republican establishment.  Now we have to be concerned about more self-serving interests driving them.

As Coulter suggests, regarding who is funding the expensive push among Republicans, look to business interests (aka follow the money).  
I presumed that it was based on a more general inclination to cheep labor.  It did not dawn on me that the incentive is far more than such a general predictable  inclination.  Every business interest wants to protect itself from government and enhance itself therein, the former often quite rightly so.

Usually anti-business Democrat leadership must be delighted by it, dependable (nowhere else to go)  labor unions  be damned.  Of course any real problems from them will be assuaged by promises of various sweet things down the road.  But in the evil jaundiced eye of Democrat leadership they surely see and appreciate the nexus that increases the chance of immigration reform and leads to more Democrats.

Permit us to enhance Coulter’s analysis by making a few assertions and asking for any disproof or substantially countervailing factors.

Obamacare and all its cost permutations is a key factor pushing business interests to push for the Schumer- Rubio  Gang of Eight proposal recently passed out of the Senate. **

Obamacare is law – immigration reform isn’t.  The Schumer – Rubio proposal provides that formally illegal immigrants are “regularized”  — they don’t have to “hide” or leave, businesses can hire them openly and not, we presume, have to pay the Obamacare taxes on them because they are supposedly not eligible for ten years —  if true a pretty substantial incentive to prefer a ready pool of the formally illegals.

But even if they are to be part of any employee head count taxes as part of Obamacare, the Democrats can say that their will be be no tax outlay for benefits —   to theoretically better balance the books. But seriously who thinks in any scenario that the formally illegal residents will not be covered  by other taxpayer paid low income health programs?  No real system wide balance occurs.

Business interests are likely in tune with this as either way they get a ready source of  willing to work employees and contractors at low cost, all well aware that health care and other benefits will not really be forgone but as always, just reprogrammed, and as always passed off to the general taxpaying public.  Business support for Schumer – Rubio is another example of the strong incentive behind the law of concentrated gain and diffuse costs.

Business gets a low wage pool to draw from for certain jobs and the real costs of keeping them are distributed to taxpayers as a whole. Their own taxes still do not come close to paying the real tab, or they would not be for the “reforms.”  We have no other understanding of why corporate interests would be behind this but we are certainly open to being better informed.  We are pleased to invite a dialogue on this matter.   R Mall

* Incredibly the local establishment leadership continues its ridiculous policy of officially having nothing to say in furtherance of Republican principles. Most of the Republican establishment love that as it means the silly serfs will continue to lick their stamps unquestioningly. Never being called to task between elections means more freedom for them to compromise Republican principles away.

** We are very pleased that Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley voted against the Schumer -Rubio immigration bill.  To his great credit he offered an amendment that imparted language to insure border enforcement prior to implementation. His amendment was voted down by Democrats joined by a disappointing array of Republicans. The attempt nevertheless serves importantly to expose the bulls**t emanating from proponents in the Senate.  Thank you Senator Grassley!

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