OH my god it is too depressing to read American publications having exactly the same discussions about immigration that we had in the UK over the last decade, and being subjected to the same snide liberal hot-takes to which we were subjected. Lines which go like: "when we open up immigration it will lead only to super-smart top-end addit…
OH my god it is too depressing to read American publications having exactly the same discussions about immigration that we had in the UK over the last decade, and being subjected to the same snide liberal hot-takes to which we were subjected. Lines which go like: "when we open up immigration it will lead only to super-smart top-end additions to the US population", "immigration won't have any impact on the average takehome pay of US citizens" and the most heinous "immigration has no impact on house prices/shortages". Some form of each of these three liberal lines appear in the TFP column today. All I can warn US readers is that we were fed those lines in the UK up to the point that their lack of truthfulness became impossible to avoid. Mass immigration has led to the importatation of people who far from contributing are a net cost - a huge net cost - to the public purse; it has depressed working class wages; it has directly contributed to our housing crisis. I beg US conservatives not to swallow the same lines. Of course our countries are different in many respects but I can't see any reason - other than scale - that would make the US immune to what has happened here.
OH my god it is too depressing to read American publications having exactly the same discussions about immigration that we had in the UK over the last decade, and being subjected to the same snide liberal hot-takes to which we were subjected. Lines which go like: "when we open up immigration it will lead only to super-smart top-end additions to the US population", "immigration won't have any impact on the average takehome pay of US citizens" and the most heinous "immigration has no impact on house prices/shortages". Some form of each of these three liberal lines appear in the TFP column today. All I can warn US readers is that we were fed those lines in the UK up to the point that their lack of truthfulness became impossible to avoid. Mass immigration has led to the importatation of people who far from contributing are a net cost - a huge net cost - to the public purse; it has depressed working class wages; it has directly contributed to our housing crisis. I beg US conservatives not to swallow the same lines. Of course our countries are different in many respects but I can't see any reason - other than scale - that would make the US immune to what has happened here.