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Do you agree with Heritage Foundation findings?
Today the Heritage Foundation, under the leadership of conservative dreamboat (and former senator) Jim DeMint, released a study showing that immigration reform would cost taxpayers a gazillion dollars over the next 50 years. The actual number doesn't matter much, just the fact that it has a nice, shocking number of zeroes in it. The methodology of the report doesn't matter much either. You'll be unsurprised to learn that it's shoddy, but this isn't a PhD dissertation. It's not meant to be accurate, it's meant to provide cover for any member of Congress who wants to give a speech and have a few handy numbers to quote.
The Heritage immigration report, however, doesn't take into account the fact that undocumented immigrants are all dynamically creating extra wealth and increasing the size of the economy.
However the debate turns out, one hopes that real scholars at Heritage and its supporters reject the slovenly work in the Heritage report and reaffirm the conservative message that more workers create more wealth, higher incomes and upward mobility. For if they do not, then virtually all their criticism of the Obama administration has been wrong and free markets (for labor and goods) are a cruel farce.
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- bobLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
No one, not even the Republican party believes this. It comes from a study predicting 50 years down the road and is not considered to be realistic. It also is in disagreement with ever independent study of the issue. The independent, non-partisan CBO puts the costs of services for the segement and $22 B -- but also shows that tax revenue from the segment to be more than twice that cost. Bottom line more right wing propaganda -- that will be repeated over and over again to and by the brain dead right wing as if it came straight from the word of God!
EDIT: Now even the Heritage foundation is walking this back saying the do not support these findings....do you want to take those thumbs down back? Conservatives are just plain stupid!!!!
- Anonymous8 years ago
No I'm on your side. I'm 100% sure that immigration reform will have a positive effect on the much maligned black unemployment disparity.
So open that border up.
- JacaraLv 78 years ago
Heritage Foundation study: Start with the Conclusion and then make numbers up to match it.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
They found the findings before they did the study.
- ?Lv 68 years ago
"undocumented immigrants are all dynamically creating extra wealth "
................. and sending it ALL to MEXICO via Western Union ..................
