Well it shows why we need immigration. We are not having babies very much, (1.6 babies on average so I hear) so us old farts who paid in all our working lives and now need some return, need young people in that work force paying taxes as we all did. We could try to keep everything pasty white but we might go broke in the process.
So would you like to reconcile how you think bringing in immigrants as unskilled labour to a progressive taxation system where they will never pay taxes is going to somehow pay for your pension?
You know, I was watching a video the other day of immigrants getting off the boat at Ellis Island way back when. Masses of them (all pasty white of course) and it didn't matter how many there were because they imposed not a single nickel of obligation on the taxpayer. They were going out into the world to sink or swim, and if they sank nobody cared. There was no help to find housing or learn the language, no subsidies for housing or food coupons, no welfare, no unemployment no free health care. Nothing. Hell, if you got arrested that didn't even cost the state the money for a lawyer to defend you, and prisons were awfully cheap.
None of which is the case today, which is why Milton Friedman said you can't have open immigration with a welfare state.
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