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As the U.S. birth rate falls, immigration reform may be ‘the answer hiding in plain sight,’ analyst says
CNBC ^ | October 12, 2023 | Kate Dore

Posted on 10/15/2023 5:49:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

As the U.S. fertility rate continues to fall, there are growing concerns about the long-term economic impact: A smaller population means less tax revenue, which could reduce funding for programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

But immigration policy reform could be one solution, some experts say.

The U.S. birth rate fell slightly in 2022 compared with 2021, with roughly 3.7 million babies born nationwide, and the birth rate still hasn’t recovered to pre-pandemic levels, according to an initial analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A growing concern for economists, the U.S. fertility rate has generally been below the replacement rate — which is needed to maintain the current population — since 1971 and has consistently been below the replacement rate since 2007.

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To: MinorityRepublican
Immigration from First World prosperous countries might be a good idea. Canada...Australia...Western and Central Europe (and maybe even Poland and Hungary)...Japan...South Korea.

OTOH...Central and South America....Africa...China...India...NO THANKS!

21 posted on 10/15/2023 6:02:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The RAT analists want to replace rowdy and disobedient Americans with low I.Q., obedient slaves who will bow and kiss their asses.


22 posted on 10/15/2023 6:03:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When you're in the braindead Hollowoody cult, it's impossible to think clearly, right Bobby (DeNiro))
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To: Reno89519
Why would you suggest such a traitorous future for the US?

We have become woke and the American men and women have no desire to reproduce. So right now, I am welcoming Spanish Machismo. Maybe that'll improve things.

Of course, we have to have the wall and maintain our borders. No illegal immigration.

23 posted on 10/15/2023 6:03:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Mexico and every other South of the border country does not seem to have a problem with population loss..


24 posted on 10/15/2023 6:05:12 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: MinorityRepublican

“A smaller population means less tax revenue, which could reduce funding for programs such as Social Security and Medicare.”

It also means fewer kids in school and hopefully lower school taxation.

Mrs. Elderly might get $50/month less in Social Security but her property tax bill might be $600/year less too.


25 posted on 10/15/2023 6:05:28 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: mowowie
Mexico and every other South of the border country does not seem to have a problem with population loss..

Because their culture is traditional and none of that woke nonsense.

26 posted on 10/15/2023 6:05:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: rottndog

Exactly.

An ever expanding population is not needed for the current residents to have a good life.

As some FReeper succinctly said some time ago - “We are a country with an economy, not an economy with a country.”


27 posted on 10/15/2023 6:06:32 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: Regulator
The experts said we were all gonna die of overpopulation in 1971 and that’s one of the big reasons the birth rate went to hell.

Exactly so. "Experts" tell the American majority population not to reproduce. They push homosexuality and abortion. They say we must have few or no children to "save the earth".

Then the "Experts" say we must accept tens of million of third world immigrants (be sure to exclude Europeans) in order to be viable economically.

It is all B.S. designed for the "great replacement".

28 posted on 10/15/2023 6:07:09 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: SecondAmendment

The communists want to continue to replace white people.


29 posted on 10/15/2023 6:08:48 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
This article makes sense! And I am going to follow it in my own situation.

You see, I am a sheep farmer. I prefer to have 100 sheep on my farm.
But I only have 80, and no more sheep are available. So I will import 20 wolves.
That will bump my total up to 100. Yes, that should work.

Now, now Mr. Wolf. Follow the rules. Please behave.


30 posted on 10/15/2023 6:08:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...

Overpaid media shills have a lot of room, the illegals can bunk in there.


31 posted on 10/15/2023 6:09:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The "analyst" apparently is a commie sympathizer wanting our relatively (but dwindling) white population replaced with black haired, black eyed non white people.

We have been side tracked into thinking the open border problem is more politically motivated ala make democrats out of these "grateful invaders"

I don't think that's it at all.

I think the goal is to make white people a great minority.

I believe many babies have already been delivered by midwives, circumventing any reporting and having anchor babies within our citizen base.

(yes, I AM paranoid)

I think after 10 plus years of millions of illegal entrants in and lost within our contry, we already have a generation of Hitlerian youth in the manner of strong healthy military types that have impregnated strong muscular women . . . (just LOOK at the people being allowed in to disappear . . . I see very few "foxes" but quite a few "healthy" women and almost every male is a buff military LOOKING specimen).

Get them in, settle down enough to begin a "master race" type program and let the infiltration take its natural course.

Does that me racist to think this way ?

32 posted on 10/15/2023 6:09:31 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . . . I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The RATS know that America can’t be made great again by the bozos wading across the Rio Grande. That’s what they are looking for. SLAVES.


33 posted on 10/15/2023 6:09:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When you're in the braindead Hollowoody cult, it's impossible to think clearly, right Bobby (DeNiro))
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Immigration from First World prosperous countries might be a good idea.”

Folks in Europe tend to vote left. The UK Conservative Party is politically about where Hillary is.


34 posted on 10/15/2023 6:09:38 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MinorityRepublican

Solve that American problem, don’t surrender us to Hispanic hordes crossing the border!


35 posted on 10/15/2023 6:10:13 PM PDT by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

The rich don’t pay taxes
The poor don’t pay taxes
The middle class pays the taxes.
Where will the get the money when the middle class is GONE?


36 posted on 10/15/2023 6:10:44 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You see, every human body is worth $200.000 in collateral to secure loans from the Federal Reserve. It doesn’t seem to matter that only Whites and some Asians are net contributors to the GDP. Any warm body will do, and you will be replaced.


37 posted on 10/15/2023 6:10:48 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Gay State Conservative
Immigration from First World prosperous countries might be a good idea.

Let's invite woke leftists from Canada and Sweden who will vote for the Democrats in every election.

38 posted on 10/15/2023 6:11:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Face palm graphic goes here.

The reason the birthrate is down is that imports and the regulatory strangulation of the economy makes it harder and harder for anyone seeking to start a family to have kids.

People are now expected to earn a college degree (or masters) and work ten years before they can earn enough to start a family. The poor and the formerly working class just give up and have children out of wedlock subsidized by Uncle Sam.

As a consequence, the society gets worse and worse.

39 posted on 10/15/2023 6:12:09 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Classic Marxist thought.
Individuals and groups are nothing,people are just numbers. As Americans have existed since Colonial times we will be replaced if they have their way.


40 posted on 10/15/2023 6:12:13 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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