[Plutarch]

This nonsensical OBL drivel was already posted.

[upchuck]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639942/posts

[kinoxi]

looks like crap to me, i'm no economist though...

[Intolerant in NJ]

..."too many immigrants"...amazing how the word "illegal" keeps being forgotten by those who keep pushing for little or no reform of the present conditions. No one is against legal, orderly, planned immigration, which usually brings skilled workers of some means into the country, but "illegals" are almost always low skilled workers who overtax local schools and medical facilities - part of the current reform movement should be to place a surtax of, say, one thousand dollars per worker on every employer who hires immigrants at substandard wages to help reimburse local schools and hospitals for the increased services they must provide.....

[possible]

Some people would sell their country for thirty pieces of silver.

[The Red Zone]

Immigration makes immigrants much better off. In the normal debate this fact is not considered to be of great importance -- who cares about them? But economists tend not to count some people as worth more than others, especially not if the difference is something so random as where a person was born.

"National sovereignty? Bad idea. The whole earth should be one single economic zone."

This is just another example of the adage "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

[billybudd]

Economists are probably also more open to immigration than the typical member of the public because of their ethics

I'm basically a free trader (anti-illegal-immigration), but arguments like this one are just bad - and won't endear economists to anyone.

[ModelBreaker]

Economists are probably also more open to immigration than the typical member of the public because of their ethics -- while economists may be known for assuming self-interested behavior wherever they look, economists in their work tend not to distinguish between us and them. We look instead for policies that at least in principle make everyone better off. Policies that make us better off at the price of making them even worse off are for politicians, not economists.

The author must surely be a wonderful person--clearly a better man than I.

[FreedomCalls]

If you replace "immigrant" with "slave" in that article it reads exactly like the arguments the apologists for slavery used in the 1840s.

[truemiester]

"Clearly, the immigration of a high-skilled worker can increase wages for Americans. Google, Yahoo and Sun Microsystems? All founded by immigrants. "

LEGAL IMMAGANTS, ya twit! Get it straight. We are not against legal immagration. Most republicans are for it. Its the illegal part that gets me.

[traviskicks]

Thank you for posting this.

btw, you might find this of interest:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/Amnesty_From_Government.htm

[taxed2death]

"....... but unlike the general public they also know that immigration can increase wages."

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Hell, if 15 million or so uneducated peasants are good for our economy.....we should bring over a few hundred million more from India, Africa and South America!


If a little is good...a lot must be GREAT!

:)