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Nick Szabo·2026-02-05 19:02
RT Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort)Many economists have a weird blindness to this: immigrants don’t just come and participate in our system. They also change the system. All major immigrant groups favor more socialist policies than White Americans. Whatever marginal economic gains citizens enjoy from immigration would be totally dwarfed by the cost of enacting the policies immigrants say they support (on average).Even when a particular group of first-gen immigrants is very anti-communist, like Cubans or Vietnam ...