You mean they are renting homes with insane amounts of taxpayer assistance? Then the landlords are receiving the 'benefit'?
basic immigration data
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nsacpi
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There is no "insane amount of taxpayer assistance." And yes all owners of housing assets (including those awful capitalists who rent out their properties) benefit from the demand (both for rented units and owner-occupied units) provided by immigrants. Their money is just as green as everyone else's. I might add from a sociological perspective that immigrants have revitalized a lot of neighborhoods that previously seemed to be in some sort of terminal downward spiral. One interesting personal detail. My landlord is an immigrant from Poland. Funny how these thangs work.
Ah yes - 'Their' money is highly subsidized by the US taxpayer both at hte individual household level and with employers.
Its an absurd value attribution assumption and is only placed as such to get the desired outcome in the study.
Legal immigrationis a net gain because of the top1000 people.
Otherwise its neutral at best. WOuld be even better with a strict merit based system.
Yup - As a country we either make the determination we are in fact A COUNTRY or just an economic area.
nsacpi
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Actually no. Illegal immigration also provides net benefits to Americans on both the narrow fiscal and broad economic fronts..
Exactly. I'm disappointed how libertarian thinktanks like CATO and Reason have accepted the globalism bullshit.
In some areas but for the most part they do not.
Low skill, impoverished people do not have a net benefit
nsacpi
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Im basing my answer on the CBO and Cato reports.
nsacpi
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Both reports lay out their methods.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Chamber of Commerce Republicans. They view things through the lens of how it helps Wall Street and portfolios, not the average person. If there’s more wealth but it’s even more concentrated they believe that’s a good thing.
'Methods'
Lots of inferences based on underlying assumptions configured to arrive at an end result.
I fear a bloodletting is now the only thing that will change things.
The push back from the elitists on immigration enforcement is sad. Shame the democrats of today are not hte democrats of 30 years ago. We could unite against the chamber of commerce folk destroying the country to bow at the altar of GDP.
nsacpi
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I think the CBO and Cato reports make clear that immigration in a plus for Americans on fiscal and economic grounds. It is not a close call. Doesn't say anything about other arguments.
nsacpi
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No methodology is perfect. Some are better than others.
I'm actually basing mine on reality.
Low skill, impoverished people of every origin do not have a net benefit fiscally.
Spinning the Real Costs of Illegals
Monday's column from the Administration's Karl Zinsmeister and Edward Lazear ("Lead Weight or Gold Mine: What are the True Costs of Immigration?" June 25, RCP) is a study in misdirection and misstatement. Since they devote much of their piece to attacking my research, I'd like to set the record...
www.heritage.org
Americans that fit this description are a net drag.
Illegals almost universally fit this description as well.
Sorry, I don't buy into studies that tell me that my eyes are lying to me.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
It’s getting to a scary place. Trump’s popularity came from a desire to push back against elitist rule. That’s not how most would say it but that is what it distills to. The institutional obstruction that has blocked that has just turned up the heat under the pressure cooker.