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David S. D’Amato is an attorney and a policy adviser to both the Heartland Institute and the Future of Freedom Foundation, as well as a columnist at the Cato Institute’s Libertarianism.org.

Standard libertarian Utopian BS they have been ranting for decades.

1 posted on 06/23/2018 8:07:38 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Jerk. How many illegals will he house and take financial responsible for?


2 posted on 06/23/2018 8:09:10 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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Letting in a bunch of “Takers” will boost nothing, but the takers, themselves.


3 posted on 06/23/2018 8:10:49 AM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
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What a pant load of crap thinking. Open borders means everyone flicks to the places that are better than where they are, and then turn them into the sh*tholes they came from because they don’t want to adopt the local culture.


4 posted on 06/23/2018 8:12:24 AM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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The Hill: Vox’s Ezra Klein, Bernie’s interviewer, quite correctly observed that open borders would “make the global poor richer.”

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And here it was just this week that Pew Research concluded that Americans had a hard time distinguishing opinion from fact.

How many of the world's "poor" suffer because they live under despotic dictators and no amount of foreign aid is going to get to them (even food) and no amount of exodus is going to cause that despotism to crumble.

5 posted on 06/23/2018 8:14:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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Open borders make the poor richer when the horde floods the US at the taxpayers expense.


6 posted on 06/23/2018 8:15:07 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
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>>We don’t need the nation-state or its borders to have law and order.

Anarchy for the USA

Smash the State

One world globalist wet dream

Even anarchists still want gay rights panels and socialized medicine


7 posted on 06/23/2018 8:16:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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Open borders are in the recipe for leftists to dominate our elections, neuter our Constitution, and install Marxist government. . . .

Boy . . . that would be really great for our economy and our well-being. / sarc


8 posted on 06/23/2018 8:17:00 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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Boost world economy =

Take from us until we are all the same...hmm...by that point we’ll be ready for UBI.

No thank you, go drown in yer think tank.


9 posted on 06/23/2018 8:18:00 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Break in my country, you are illegal. Break in my house, makes you not a homeowner.)
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Taking from some and giving it others as socialist politicians sees fit does NOT double world GDP.

It just makes everyone poorer.


11 posted on 06/23/2018 8:21:10 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Perhaps this author should look at ancient world history when the concept of nation-state either did not exist or was still malleable. There were wholesale slaughters then when disparate groups clashed during mass migrations. It was hardly the win-win situation he posits.


12 posted on 06/23/2018 8:21:46 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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Sure, maybe for the “world economy,” but it will be a disaster for all first world nations. Open borders means essentially that all the countries of the world will even out. Yes, we will help bring third world countries up to second world status, but we will also be dropping like a rock into second world status ourselves. Why don’t we ask how many Americans want the U.S. to be just like Mexico or Brazil or India?

The regular folks, especially the already struggling working class, would be devastated by this rapid influx of millions of cheap laborers across the border. The schools would be overflowing, the infrastructure crumbling, the environment would be overwhelmed, the local culture and sense of community would be heavily diluted, living costs would go through the roof, wages would drop like a stone.

Only the elites would benefit from this. The business elites would have more dirt cheap labor than they could ever hope to use, while the political elites would have a captive, easy to dominate pool of voters desperate to remain in the country at all costs.


13 posted on 06/23/2018 8:21:48 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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We don’t need the nation-state or its borders to have law and order. In fact, the fullest expressions of law and order are impossible while these remain in existence.

Only an over-educated IDIOT would believe such a thing - Nations have LAWS ….

14 posted on 06/23/2018 8:23:33 AM PDT by Ken522 (e)
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This guy is crazier than a bed bug trapped in a jar full of moonshine.

Open border enthusiasts are all suffering under the same delusion, namely that history stopped in 1945. That somehow culture doesn’t matter anymore. That everyone will now be an enlightened neo liberal secular democrat.

This fallacy is already being highlighted in Europe.


15 posted on 06/23/2018 8:23:47 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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TRANSLATION: world economy = globalist billionaires


16 posted on 06/23/2018 8:25:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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Increasing OVERALL GDP doesn’t increase percapita GDP. IN fact it probably lowers it sustainability based on the last 3 decades on empirical evidence.


17 posted on 06/23/2018 8:28:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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So, David how does the simple act of crossing a border help the world economy?
Suppose everyone crossed the border in the opposite direction you dream of...What then?
A border was still crossed.
18 posted on 06/23/2018 8:31:17 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Jeff Sessions not a mouse or mr. magoo but a low life back stabbing bastard pretending to be AG)
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Hey Slick! How ‘bout making a “case” for the American taxpayers. Moron. No borders, no America. Geez, this guy is stupid.


19 posted on 06/23/2018 8:34:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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Reads like satire but at least it is a reasoned argument rather than the usual “you’re a racist if you don’t agree” screed.


20 posted on 06/23/2018 8:39:29 AM PDT by AndrewB
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Just another argument to distribute the wealth of the west... the ideas, the money, the achievements, thereby diluting the west and empowering the 57 states and Africa who could not develop the necessary infrastructure which built the achievements that the west enjoys.

Yep, just another attack on Western European Christian man and his descendants.

Screw them!


21 posted on 06/23/2018 8:48:40 AM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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Same kind of nonsense thinking - some thug breaks a window in a business. That business has to purchase a new pane of glass, install it, and the glass company then manufactures a new pane of glass. Thinking that this creates positive economic activity. It doesn’t. Or think of all the economic activity after a major hurricane! Not.


22 posted on 06/23/2018 8:52:00 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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