Posted on 01/08/2024 6:09:38 PM PST by MtnClimber
Lessons from Milton Friedman, Herbert Stein ... and Cloward-Piven.
Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman scolded the Wall Street Journal for cheerleading an open-border immigration policy. "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state," he warned.
This leads to a “transfer state,” as the Heritage Foundation describes, the government taxing the upper and middle classes, transferring money to lower economic classes via subsidies and benefits.
In other words, “The transfer state redistributes funds from those with high-skill and high-income levels to those with lower skill levels.”
Heritage makes the assumption, “It takes the entire net tax payments (taxes paid minus benefits received) of one college-educated family to pay for the net benefits received by one low-skill immigrant family.”
What happens when that ratio changes to one financially sound family supporting not one, but two, three, or more families through ever-increasing taxes and families to support?
Which is why a welfare state in an open-borders country will eventually reaching a tipping point. Are we already there?
As reported by Fox News’s Griff Jenkins, “Encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border have topped over 300,000 in December.” Do the math. That’s 3.6 million per year, more than the population of every U.S. city except Los Angeles and New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The goal seems to be that our economic system gets crushed by the burden of so many dependent people.
Sometimes it has to break in order for real change to take place. Hyperinflation will stop this merry-go-round when the US dollar is worthless.
I was wondering if sitcoms and movies were one of the reasons a lot of people become illegal aliens.
In most of the movies and TV shows, almost everybody is magically at least upper middle class or higher, no matter how stupid they are.
Everybody living in a nice house or apartment, driving a new car or SUV.
Someone on the outside, looking in would figure that is just the way it is in the USA for everybody and do anything possible to get here.
We need to interview him and others like him from the various countries the are coming from and get those interviews on TV there.
We all knew to say good-bye years ago.
The 91,873rd death of the dollar.
$200,000,000,000,000 debt/unfunded liabilities and the dollar is still the unparalleled king of earth w/o a rival in existence.
Waiting on that train-prepare for a long wait.
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