Thanks for the articles, I'll read them when I get a chance. I wasn't aware of those figures; rolling in my mind was that I'd read somewhere that immigrants took substantially more social benefits than natives (like 50%…
So, Trump didn't really do that in the actual speech, as far as I can tell. He said "they're sending us" drug dealers and rapists (or the illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists). Which was a blatant…
I think this is a very good question. And I don't know how to answer it... Some good books address possible problems (at least tangentially) in Central and South America: "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" outlines…
edit: it's not letting me edit. As is apparent, I have a bit of a Trump tilt. I would actually really appreciate knowing more arguments against locked down borders in general (like Switzerland, say), besides social ones.
Because of capitalism I think, you can't just appropriate someone's profits, that's not capitalism. There are two basic ideas to solve this though, you can put more and more taxes on the capital owning class to "make…
Hate to play devil's advocate. But there just might be a reason or two to explain Trump's supporter base without using phrases like "white supremacist" and "racist xenophobe"...…
Thanks for the articles, I'll read them when I get a chance. I wasn't aware of those figures; rolling in my mind was that I'd read somewhere that immigrants took substantially more social benefits than natives (like 50%…
So, Trump didn't really do that in the actual speech, as far as I can tell. He said "they're sending us" drug dealers and rapists (or the illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists). Which was a blatant…
I think this is a very good question. And I don't know how to answer it... Some good books address possible problems (at least tangentially) in Central and South America: "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" outlines…
edit: it's not letting me edit. As is apparent, I have a bit of a Trump tilt. I would actually really appreciate knowing more arguments against locked down borders in general (like Switzerland, say), besides social ones.
Because of capitalism I think, you can't just appropriate someone's profits, that's not capitalism. There are two basic ideas to solve this though, you can put more and more taxes on the capital owning class to "make…
Hate to play devil's advocate. But there just might be a reason or two to explain Trump's supporter base without using phrases like "white supremacist" and "racist xenophobe"...…