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Attached is an article by Ron Brownstein that shows the irony of Trump voters being anti-immigrant. They’re predominantly older voters who are expecting to draw Social Security and Medicare. To keep both programs, we need more young taxpayers. Immigrants account for about 88% of population growth. Without a growing base of workers, the safety net social programs will enter a death spin. We already have a tremendous problem with the cost of entitlement programs. Over the long haul, stopping or vastly curtailing immigration makes it worse.
Once you figure out the difference between legal immigrants and illegal aliens, try posting again.
The article I posted didn’t mention legal or illegal at all. It just focused on total numbers. As older workers retire we have fewer native born replacement workers to support them through taxes. The more you restrict immigration, through expulsion of illegals or reductions in legal immigration, the more you reduce the number of workers supporting older workers through taxes.
Again, not against IMMIGRANTS. Immigration, by definition is a LEGAL process. We are against ILLEGAL ALIENS. Just one reason being, they can not be vetted, and therefore pose a greater risk.
Correct.
Not seeing how illegals working off the books (i.e., paying no taxes whatsoever) and cashing in on every give-away program this nation has to offer solves any problems except the persistent problem of working Americans voting against Democrats.
My God people, read the article..it's about legal immigration, why do you want to go off the rails talking about illegal immigration? I've mentioned this before and provided data to support it; we don't have a high enough birthrate, we need immigrants. The simple fact is that like it or not most of those immigrants will not be white; they will be people of color from various parts of the world. White western europeans are the least likely people to want to come here.
The article I posted didn’t mention legal or illegal at all. It just focused on total numbers. As older workers retire we have fewer native born replacement workers to support them through taxes. The more you restrict immigration, through expulsion of illegals or reductions in legal immigration, the more you reduce the number of workers supporting older workers through taxes.
As a legal immigrant myself, we are against ILLEGAL ALIENS!
Except the article is definitely about legal immigration too. In fact, it’s primarily about legal immigration since legal immigrants are obviously more likely to pay taxes.
We don't shun immigrants. Just can't afford to take in unlimited numbers of refugees from every third world country we can find. And yes, I understand we need cheap labor to fill jobs lazy Americans don't want, but we get plenty of that from the southern border
My God people, read the article..it's about legal immigration, why do you want to go off the rails talking about illegal immigration? I've mentioned this before and provided data to support it; we don't have a high enough birthrate, we need immigrants. The simple fact is that like it or not most of those immigrants will not be white; they will be people of color from various parts of the world. White western europeans are the least likely people to want to come here.
Again, as a legal immigrant and a person of color (whatever that means), we aren't against legal immigration and we don't care the skin color.
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