Well...
...I still have a huge problem with what you're saying despite your very coherent and "reasonable-SOUNDING" efforts to justify it.

Basically you're confusing two separate issues. One: the cost to the taxpayer of the benefits system. Two: the issue of immigration.

The fundamental problem with your arguments is this: if you look at the statistics, it is quite obviously clear that immigrants are not responsible for the vast majority of the cost of the benefits system. We're talking about demonstrable, provable evidence. Whereas what you have done is taken a reactionary stance based, one suspects, on what you have been repeatedly fed by a self-interested media who know that moral panics and fearmongering sell papers.

Find some proof from a reliable source to support your viewpoint or even show that illegal immigrants claiming benefits is a seriously significant problem, and you may get some support. Unfortunately, you won't be able to do that because it's not true. Frustrated about having to pay too much tax? Try blaming the corporations who refuse to pay UK taxes because they are too rich and powerful for the government to be able to make them, and if the govt tried, they could simply desert the UK and set up somewhere else, taking jobs with them. Here's a statistically-provable fact: if all the corporations and businesses paid all the tax they are supposed to by law, all income tax for private individuals in the UK could be abolished without any reduction in the total amount of tax revenue collected. FACT.

And you still think immigrants are the problem? In terms of problems actually affecting the UK, immigrants claiming benefits is way, way down the scale.
(rampants, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:17, Reply)