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> Levies on migrants' wires to foreign countries could help fill the gap, one lawmaker said Migrants are simultaneously eating up all taxpayer dollars and send

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > Migrants are simultaneously eating up all taxpayer dollars Migrants are fiscally profitable in a way e.g. native-born high-school dropouts and their descendants are not [1]. (Note the source. Not usually pro immigration.) [1] https://www.cato.org/blog/fiscal-impact-immigration-united-states https://www.cato.org/blog/fiscal-impact-immigration-united-s...
  • washadjeffmad 2y ago
    To a native with no other access to unequal markets, there's no reason not to spend. Their Big Mac per hour ratio is only getting worse and saving won't change that. Give those people the same relative windfall sums and some will accelerate spending, others will invest.
• verzali 2y ago
  That will never work anyway. Migrants could switch to crypto or other methods. The levy would probably end up hitting business transactions if anything.
• robocat 2y ago
  They are often already taxed by social security - which they might never get to claim. Certainly happened to me when I worked as a temp in the US.