The Biden Economy

[Chicks]

How Immigrants Make America Great Again (and Again and Again)
A new book documents that newcomers revitalize beliefs in hard work, property rights, and the rule of law.
https://reason.com/video/2020/12/21/...ain-and-again/

From those dang "liberals" at the Cato institute, lol.

Do immigrants bring with them the worst attributes of the countries they left behind?

The fear that they do motivates populists, nationalists, and even some free market economists, such as Harvard University's George Borjas, the University of Oxford's Paul Collier, and George Mason University's Garett Jones, who speculate that mass immigration from countries with illiberal traditions will undermine Western culture.

In their new book, Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions, the Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and Texas Tech University's Benjamin Powell take an exhaustive look at the data and find that destination countries not only benefit economically from immigration but that key markers of liberal democracy—such as support for the rule of law and limited government, belief in private property rights, and trust in government—improve when newcomers arrive en masse.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

...For better or worse as we've seen recently, Federal tax cuts are not accompanied by a commensurate reduction in Federal spending...
That said, in a sane world lower revenues SHOULD BE the goal of tax cuts. The tax cuts allow individuals to keep more of their earnings and serve as a check and balance on the runaway growth of the Federal government. But this isn't a sane world, or at least, the world inside the DC beltway parted company with sanity long ago.

And that's precisely why Republicans' fealty to supply-side economics without a commensurate willingness to cut spending invariably leads to huge deficits that have to be addressed by subsequent Democratic administrations. You're simply not bright enough to realize that you're making my very point.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Chicks

...(D)estination countries not only benefit economically from immigration but that key markers of liberal democracy—such as support for the rule of law and limited government, belief in private property rights, and trust in government—improve when newcomers arrive en masse.

And conversely, those who strongly oppose immigration also oppose liberal democracy in favor of autocracy. Indeed, their hero, Victor Orban of Hungary, refers to his ideology as "illiberal democracy."

[Chicks]

Strict U.S. Immigration Laws Leave Migrants Dependent on Human Smugglers
Human smugglers at Mexican border won’t be sought after if migrants can come to the U.S. legally.
https://reason.com/2022/05/24/strict...man-smugglers/

There is one way to make human smuggling drop significantly or even largely disappear—allow those who now pay smugglers instead to obtain a legal visa to work in the United States. Apprehensions at the border dropped 95 percent between 1953 to 1959 when the Immigration and Naturalization Service liberalized the entry of Mexican farmworkers via the Bracero program. Today, establishing a new work visa with sufficient annual allocations, expanding the H-2B visa category, and negotiating bilateral agreements between the United States and Mexico, as well as countries in Central America, would increase legal avenues to work and eliminate the need for individuals to pay smugglers.

Expanding opportunities for individuals to apply for protection in their home countries—via refugee interviews at consulates and circuit rides—would also make it less likely for people to pay smugglers to reach the United States. Migrants should be able to apply for refugee status from their home country. That way they don't resort to human smugglers just to be denied refugee status at the border. And, in that case, an opportunity to obtain a work visa at a consulate and travel legally to the U.S. would be a good alternative for many individuals and their families.

Human smugglers would be happy to see the U.S. keep the same immigration policies that have allowed their business to flourish over the last 50 years. Making legal immigration an easier avenue will create a safer alternative for migrants.

Sadly, racists of the type Whell and his pals support will never allow common sense solutions like this. F'ing MAGAMorons!

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

No. This is more of a "depends how you measure it" item.

https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-b...t-by-president

Todays CBO report projects that the deficit this year will fall by $1.7 trillion—the single largest nominal reduction in the federal deficit in American history.

[piece-itpete]

The left didn't support Bush's immigration plan either. Me, I figured since it pissed everyone off it was probably a good plan.

I had 2 different immigrants comment to me on Trumps wall. Both legal. The Puerto Rican (who lived on welfare) was 100% for it and seemed to like Trump. The 'main' man that lives next door to me, an 'India Indian', very nice house, said something like 'For or against him, my family had to go through a long expensive process to get here. It's only fair.'

Finn that's good news! I wonder if it's the biggest percentage.

[Chicks]

Tucker Carlson's Great Replacement Theory Is Spectacularly Wrong
Republicans have thrived since Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to 2.7 million mostly Mexican illegal immigrants in 1986.

https://reason.com/video/2022/05/27/...cularly-wrong/

Fucker is almost as stupid as the Insane Clown. Wrong about pretty much everything.

[bobabode]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...trong-economy/

390,000 new jobs last month and the unemployment rate sits at 3.6% but the sky is falling according to the gloom and doomers.

[Oerets]

Biden and the Dems need to dumb it down to catch phrases....

The majority of the populace has an attention span of seconds to get a message to.

The whole word is having to deal with these problems. It is not just the U.S.A. after all. Just wait till this fall when the harvests are do. With Ukraine a mess watch out world!!

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Biden and the Dems need to dumb it down to catch phrases....

The majority of the populace has an attention span of seconds to get a message to.

The whole word is having to deal with these problems. It is not just the U.S.A. after all. Just wait till this fall when the harvests are do. With Ukraine a mess watch out world!!

Inflation needs more catch phrases.