In my youth, it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.
Will Idaho follow Arizona?
Submitted by banjomike on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 10:08pm.
I just heard on the news tonight that some legislators are planning to introduce a bill that is similar to Arizona's illegals deportation law, which just went into effect today, minus most of the enforcement teeth that was written into it.
From everything I've read, I think Arizona stuck it's head into a bucket of rattlesnakes, and has yet to feel the full effect of their law. I think the Arizona law will end up in the Supreme Court, at a lot of cost to the state, but even worse, I'm thinking their snowbirds may abandon Arizona in the winter and go elsewhere. I also can't help but think that, in addition to their convention and tourist business hurting, the law is going to hit Arizona farmers and manufacturing very hard by this coming winter.
I understand the state's frustrations- immigration reform is very badly needed- but it's a federal, not a state problem. Ultimately, I believe Texas, Utah and Oklahoma will end up being the beneficiaries of Arizona's mistake, and Arizona may permanently lose out to them.
But that's just me... I'm wondering what folks here think about it, and feel about Idaho passing a similar bill.
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Idaho has never been shy
Idaho has never been shy about wasting taxpayer money on anything and everything *except* what will benefit real live people, so I fully anticipate Idaho will try to tag along with the Arizona lunacy, and federal judges be darned.
I've a friend who teaches on a rez in AZ, and he pointed out to me that Native Americans would have been a huge victim class had AZ been allowed to implement SB1070 in toto. That is, of course, a no brainer due to skin color, but it's not something that received sufficient attention, IMHO. Quite the irony there, yes?
Maybe the Navajo
should start checking people at their border.
Long post coming
on the subject matter. Hopefully today.