THE INTELLECTUAL DEBATE IS CHANGING, BUT TOO LATE It’s received wisdom among ort

THE INTELLECTUAL DEBATE IS CHANGING, BUT TOO LATE

It’s received wisdom among orthodox economists, that immigration is ‘good’. but the truth is, that it’s good for the upper classes, and bad for anyone else, and it’s only good in the abstract over the very long run.

I’ve been arguing this same point for years, and I include in my arguments the cost of institutional conformity and increased frication and trust.

The USA’s immigration history is also a received wisdom that isn’t true. Catholics and Jews had precisely the impact on freedom, civic virtue, manners, morals and ethics, that the protestants worried about. (Yes, it’s true.) Values aren’t arbitrary or neutral.

THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT TO THE BENEFIT OF IMMIGRATION IS FALSE for everyone except government employees and financiers. For everyone else it’s theft.

http://cis.org/immigrant-gains-native-losses-in-the-job-market-2000-to-2013