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Over the last 30 years the most inflated spending category is education and healthcare, which are arguably the least import dependent.
by throwaway48476 1y ago
Over the last 30 years the most inflated spending category is education and healthcare, which are arguably the least import dependent.
- ThunderSizzle 1y agoAnd housing... which also isn't import dependent, necessarily.
- acdha 1y agoBoth depend heavily on immigrants, however, both for staffing and in the case of education for the students paying full-price tuition and effectively subsidizing everyone else.
- throwaway48476 1y agoImmigration has only made it more expensive, as shown by the increase in both price and immigration.
- acdha 1y agoThat’s far from clear. For example, healthcare costs have risen sharply but you’d need to demonstrate that hiring foreign workers contributed to that rather than simply being a reaction to the unsustainable costs. Similarly, in education if it was just a few prestige schools it’d be easy to believe that Harvard and Yale were hiking their base rates to exploit international students while finding credits for some of the others, but the trend is across the board even at less prestigious state schools and I’d want to see data that it’s not better explained by other factors like schools maximizing revenue from student aid.
- throwaway48476 1y agoWherever there has been mass migration huge inflation has followed. If reverse migration was implemented inflation would lessen and quality of life would dramatically improve.
- acdha 1y agoDo you have a citation for that?