@kaminski_zach@Legal_Fil We had no control over who comes over and how many people. Hiding behind budget projections and calling people racist disguises that there was never a plan. Window dressing it after the fact is dishonest because most natives have only paid costs and never saw benefits.
@kaminski_zach@Legal_Fil The core point in economic theory is that increased labor supply increases GDP. That applies to all immigration - whether there are other effects depends specifically on demographics and skill of the wave of immigration. 2020+ wasn’t a policy decision. We just opened the borders.
@kaminski_zach@Legal_Fil https://t.co/ILovGTPuW6
•Our best estimate is that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants, also called the undocumented, use at least one major program. We have no evidence this is due to fraud. Among legal immigrants we estimate the rate is 52 percent.
@kaminski_zach@Legal_Fil Refer to my point above on using past waves to model 2020+. CBO models a baseline illegal immigration flow of 200k per year vs the 1.7 million per year illegal immigration from 2021-2026. Might change the effect on state budgets when 50% of illegal households are on welfare 🤷.
The left has a massive issue with faux intellectualism. It’s not that haven’t read the literature - they don’t even know that there is established literature.
On CNN NewsNight, The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill argues that capitalism is oppressive and bound up in white supremacy.
Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.
Hill: “How is it not?”
Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is! That is not white supremacy.”
Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Foster: “I've actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy? … What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?“
@kaminski_zach@Legal_Fil Most studies of immigration are based on historical waves from Europe to the United States. More recent studies on the immigration occurring post 2020 has been mixed. Post your research overview then and show that immigration has benefited the native populace.
@ColyerAndy@JonahDispatch He doesn’t have an answer for the deficit. He only brings up the deficit to say we can actually* pay for another entitlement.
Like the last 20 years of politics he’s just ignoring the problem.