The are a positive federally, negative at the state level

Yet again, objectively factually untrue. And this is all spelled out in the CONSERVATIVE source I linked you:

"Therefore, the net effect of immigrants for all levels of government was positive $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023 (including interest savings). Immigrants were fiscally positive for both the federal government and the state and local governments. The net federal effect was $7.9 trillion, only slightly more than the net for states and localities. Immigrants paid $9.6 trillion in taxes to state and local governments but cost those governments only $4.7 trillion—primarily because immigrants consumed less in education, government pensions, and policing. This resulted in a total fiscal surplus of $6.6 trillion at the state and local level (Table 4)."

“Commented on Reddit” yea when I’m at work or when I’m Sitting in bed at night.

You had at least 1, usually 5+ comment every hour in the last 24 hours except for an 8 hour period of time between 1 am EST and 9 am EST

If you want to know your neighbors speech some time outside talking to people instead of reading conservative slop and fear mongering

I live in a blue state (NYC) a state that has been blue for decades and our transportation is horrendous

New York, like Illinois, has some of the most build out public transport due to their rail networks. There have been many proposed high speed rail lines for the corridor from New York to DC, but funding always gets blocked by Republicans. Many larger state projects require federal funding, for which NYC is a net contributer, while nearly every red state is takes in more in federal spending than they contribute through taxes

Japan ? lol literally one of the most xenophobic nations ?

Lmao spoken like someone who has never been (I have a few times)

Also, if xenophobia and not tax spending is what magically kept their cities clean (despite extremely high tourism), why isn't the whole south sparkling? Lmao

Europe ? Definitely not London , you must mean Poland

It's hysterical that out of all of Europe, you pick the example that privatized their rail networks because of neoliberal economic policies that took over their politics after Reagan and Thatcher popularized neoliberalism and both countries standards of living plummeted