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So the obvious answer is that you can either have welfare programs or you can have open borders, you can't have both.

• gspr 6y ago
  What's your logic here? Many European countries have generous welfare programs, and have open borders with other EU countries with far less generous ones. It works. One common approach is to mandate having worked at least one day in the country in question in order to be able to use welfare programs, and keeping things like unemployment benefits proportional (with a cap, of course) to previous income in the same country.
  • twblalock 6y ago
    > Many European countries have generous welfare programs, and have open borders with other EU countries with far less generous ones. It works. Actually it has caused a lot of resentment in the richer countries and it was one of the contributing factors to Brexit, as well as the rise of new far right parties in France and Germany. It's also notable how Europeans reacted to non-European migrants who attempt to enter the EU while fleeing the war in Syria. I wouldn't say the EU has migration very well figured out.
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    • gspr 6y ago
      Resentment, perhaps, but the original claim I'm countering was something else. The goalposts seem to be moving.