While I agree with probably 95%+ of BC’s positions, I do not on unlimited immigraton.
What he claims about U.S. immigrants fail to indicate that most of them wanted to come here when coming here was *hard*.
There is little reason to believe that when you combine LITERALLY open borders with a welfare state that there would remain net positive fiscal effects by large majorities of those who come here.
To say nothing of the difficulty in the modern age of integrating the huge numbers of people who would arrive once this policy was official.
While I agree with probably 95%+ of BC’s positions, I do not on unlimited immigraton.
What he claims about U.S. immigrants fail to indicate that most of them wanted to come here when coming here was *hard*.
There is little reason to believe that when you combine LITERALLY open borders with a welfare state that there would remain net positive fiscal effects by large majorities of those who come here.
To say nothing of the difficulty in the modern age of integrating the huge numbers of people who would arrive once this policy was official.
Milton Friedman had this correct.