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Because the money still goes into the American economy. They buy food, housing, insurance, consumer goods, services. Immigrants are a huge financial boon becaus
by causi 4y ago
Because the money still goes into the American economy. They buy food, housing, insurance, consumer goods, services. Immigrants are a huge financial boon because we get an adult that Americans didn't have to pay for. Prenatal care, delivery, food, childhood education, all of that gets paid for by somebody else and then we get the product of their expenditure for free. That's like every single immigrant donating one or two hundred thousand dollars to the nation as a whole the moment they cross the border. Then as an added bonus they have children here, and help shore up declining birthrates.
- usrn 4y agoWe don't want them buying housing, we have a housing shortage.
- vsskanth 4y ago"They" are not the cause of the shortage. You will have a housing shortage even without "Them" because of zoning issues and housing supply shortage.
- polski-g 4y agoIt's both
- causi 4y agoMore people wanting a product is a short-term price driver. If the price stays exorbitant over years and decades that is a supply-side problem that will not be fixed by slightly reducing the number of consumers.
- rchaud 4y agoWho should buy the housing stock then? Investment funds that will convert the homes to long-term Airbnbs?