Why is it better for U.S. citizens to benefit than for an immigrant to benefit? Are U.S. citizens somehow more deserving? Does their increased wealth "count" more?
on 9/5/03 12:40 PM, alypius skinner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Alright, I understand how the immigrant benefits by making more money than > he would have made in his native land. What I don't understand is how > paying an immigrant rather than a US citizen to do that work makes US > citizens better off. Your argument readily makes sense under a one world > government (maybe Robert Mugabe or Hugo Chavez would wind up as World > President), but we live in a system of sovreign states. How do the citizens > of state A benefit by importing competitors from state B? Now, I realize > *someone* will benefit, just as some people would benefit if our government > decided to launch a full scale invasion of Communist China, but what numbers > would we look at--average incomes, unemployment rates, crime rates, tax > rates, whatever--would we look at to detect that the average citizen was > better off from higher immigration rates than from lower immigration rates? > > ~Alypius Skinner
