Posted on 03/05/2019 11:43:23 AM PST by Thalean
The primary reason that mass immigration destroys the welfare state because immigrants receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes.
This is not true for every immigrant—some never collect government handouts—but it is true for the overall immigrant population. Studies from across the Western world prove this point.
A recent, and comprehensive study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found that although immigration is (theoretically) revenue-neutral in America, not all immigrants are created equal. Half of all immigrants actually receive more in government assistance than they pay in taxes, but thankfully they are balanced out by the other half. Specifically, immigrants who came to America for family reasons, or arrived as refugees, cost a net present value of $170,000.
Net present value is how much money the government would need to invest today, at a yield of inflation plus three percent, to pay for said immigrant’s tax deficit over the course of their expected lifetime. Of course, the government does not do this—it spends only as it receives. Therefore, looking at net present value creates artificially low expectations.
According to the Heritage Foundation, each non-economic immigrant more realistically costs a net of $476,000 in welfare payouts. And of course this does not account for any increases in government programs. Applying this more realistic figure to the original study means that immigrants consume far more in government services than they pay for. In fact, if immigration levels remain unchanged, those arriving over the next decade will cost American taxpayers a net of $1.9 trillion over their lifetimes.
The welfare state is already struggling: immigration will make a bad problem worse.
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Thank God we have a completely fiat, printed, unbacked currency - with manipulated interest rates by the Federal Reserve.
Otherwise our massive progressive-left state couldn’t afford any of its social-engineering schemes.....
The open borders Welfare State is a national suicide pact.
“You can have open borders or you can have a welfare state, but you can’t have both.” —Milton Friedman
“You may have Open Borders OR a Modern Welfare State. But, you cannot have both.”
Milton Friedman.
Democrats dilemma ?
Laughable. Since when is common sense important to their voters ?
Since when did logical inconsistency or even mathematical or physical possibility slow down a socialist communist?
Until, as Thatcher said, they run out of other peoples’ money, like Venezuela? Or they run into the guns of their victims, like Romania?
Destroying the system is a feature of their plan, not a bug. Once it breaks they get to make a new better more expensive and more liberty destroying one.
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“You may have Open Borders OR a Modern Welfare State. But, you cannot have both.”
- Milton Friedman.
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And, as Socialism/Welfare State are completely antithesis to our Constitutional Republic\Rights (5th, 9th, 10th & 13th @ the least)...
Though, I’ve always though that to be a false dichotomy; we’re not talking OPEN borders, there’s still LAW(s)\processes
It’s not incompatible at all. Socialism is a direct line to totalitarianism and slavery. More immigrants bleed the system dry faster.. achieving the real objective sooner.
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