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It's a horrible irony that a well-intentioned welfare system was a major factor leading to this economic repression. But if you have an expensive safety net for
by uvdiv 16y ago
It's a horrible irony that a well-intentioned welfare system was a major factor leading to this economic repression. But if you have an expensive safety net for everyone in your country, then you can't afford mass immigration (because of rent seeking), so politics forces you to "regulate" it. Now your laws deny opportunities to would-be African and Arab immigrants; not merely welfare, but jobs, access to markets and capital. Not only is it not-egalitarian, it's outright regressive.
- ThomPete 16y agoWe don't deny them any of that. On the contrary that is exactly what they get. They get all those benefits still like everyone else. What have changed is how hard it is to immigrate. Sorry if that was unclear