June 03, 2005

"The immigrant 'cheap labor' myth"

Jon Dougherty crunches the numbers and tells us:

...immigrants – legal and illegal – inflict a net drain on the U.S. economy, when you factor in all of the expenses associated with providing them taxpayer- and consumer-supported benefits and services.

While it is true there are some industries benefiting from cheap labor – agriculture, for one – bare-bones, unbiased, non-partisan statistics prove beyond reproach that illegal immigrants are costing the nation much more than they contribute to it...

Posted to Immigration2005a at June 3, 2005 06:32 PM

Comments

This is rich. He tries to refute the fact that immigrants are a net benefit to the economy by talking about government budgets. He has no clue that the economy and government budgets are completely different animals.

Posted by: Ralph at June 4, 2005 02:38 AM

Someone who takes net public subsidy is morally responsible for so doing; he is a vicious parasite. Increasing this class by means of immigration increases the aggression on the net taxpayer; an obvious increase of evil against virtue. Donald Huddle, one of the most learned scholars of these questions of the net public subsidy of immigrants, has published estimates which can today, be updated to the level of HUNDREDS of billions of dollars per year. This net public subsidy is of the foreign born in America, who've arrived since 1970. Where is our capacity to empathize with the net taxpayer, who is thus being gruesomely attacked by foreign parasites, while his insensate fellow citizens will neither defend him, nor the truth?

Posted by: John S Bolton at June 5, 2005 02:28 PM