Cities shrink but immigrants help stem population losses

Channel 3000 News ^ | April 23, 2023 | Tim Henderson/STateline News

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Immigration more than doubled across all types of counties from rural to the most urban between mid-2021 and mid-2022, according to the Stateline analysis of census estimates."

[babygene]

Therein lies the problem... For the most part, immigrants don’t pay taxes...

[JBW1949]

Better law enforcement, judicial honesty, and crime prevention would help cities stop shrinkage....

[P.O.E.]

Just about every line in this article is bogus political spin.

[moovova]

Just a quicker disintegration for the cities. Especially if MS-13 has a presence.

[adorno]

IOW, big blue cities are losing people with jobs and who pay taxes, and are gaining the poorer no-tax-paying or low-tax-paying people, and the people who are wholly dependent on government handouts.

That’s not a growth strategy and not even a survival strategy for the blue cities and states.

On the other side, those wage-earning/tax-paying people leaving the blue cities and states, are making things more expensive for those living tn the red states, with prices for housing rising very fast, which also raises the real-estate taxes for those who were already residents of the red areas. Higher home values are a good thing, if you plan to sell sometime in the near future, but, not if you plan to stay for the long run.

[CFW]

And the illegals will be counted in the census and their numbers used in the apportionment of house seats.

[lowbridge]

[JBW1949]

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[KarlInOhio]

Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, pledged to stop property tax increases he blames for driving people out of the city.

That and massive crime. Best to avoid all of Crook County during the night... or dusk... or daylight.

Tighter restrictions on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, enacted by the Biden administration earlier this year,

Those are some really powerful drugs the author is taking to believe that.

[Sacajaweau]

Yeh...give me your poor..your sick...your lazy.

Just follow the present immigration laws...and this wouldn't be happening.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The illegal invasion is saving the Democrat-Socialists!

[gundog]

So, slums? Or ghettos? What’s the preferred nomenclature?

[EinNYC]

Why would you want illegals (NOT “immigrants”!) replacing people who have left their cities due to crime and other major problems? Or anywhere? They are not a solution to “stem population losses”, they are an active and major problem requiring vast resources we should not have to devote to them.

[gundog]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8I_u5fvB15Q&pp=ygUbU2VpbmZlbGQsIHN0YXR1ZSBvZiBsaWJlcnR5

[Blood of Tyrants]

Which is the beauty of the Fair Tax. Everyone pays it.

[The Duke]

It's referred to as "giving away your country".

If we had known we were just going to give away our great cities to the street thugs then I doubt we would have poured nearly as much concrete.

[babygene]

I agree, except the fair tax would replace federal income tax. That wouldn’t help cities that much.

[riri]

Here's the thing, if you import people who made sh*tty societies where they came from, en masse, they are only going to do the same here. The center of North America isn't built on magic dirt.

And, really, what would have been wrong with a largely empty and wealthy country? Imagine the quality of life we could have and, more importantly, our children and grandchildren could have had. Instead we have the hellscape that is the USA 2023 and beyond.

What was the purpose of giving that away again?

[skeeter]

“The Great Replacement is a racist conspiracy theory”