on 9/5/03 12:40 PM, alypius skinner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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?
The point is that in the case of immigrants' wages it is not just a transfer, but a net gain. The invasion example is presumably a transfer with net losses.
