I agree with everything here. The current Administration is doing everything possible to ensure that the United States will be poorer, sicker, and less free in four years than it is now. There is no mystery to it, we knew it all when Trump and his supporters started their campaigns. The destruction of science and higher education, free press, independent judiciary; the cruelty against immigrants and minorities; the tariffs and the hypocritical MAHA campaign against cheap food and medicines -- all of this was predicted and predictable. Ayn Rand described all of this in Atlas Shrugged, for Pete's sake! It was easy to recognize that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are the real-life versions of Mr. Thompson and James Taggart. So my question to the Cato Institute is simple -- why are you surprised now? Didn't you support the GOP for the past fifty years? Didn't you see where it was going?
This analysis is sloppy and incomplete. For one thing, you do not address the wage effect of deportations on US citizen workers. In labor sectors with a lot of illegal immigrants deportations will reduce the supply of labor, leading to higher wages for US citizen workers. These higher wages will in turn lead to more federal tax revenue, partially offsetting the deficit expansion due to revenue loss from deported workers.
Second, you do not address the potential multiplier effects of immigration enforcement. Immigration enforcement simultaneously disrupts drug cartel, trafficking networks, and wage tax evasion by companies, effectively serving as a "four-in-one" law enforcement approach (similar to how cities can simultaneously reduce youth crime by enforcing truancy laws).
Third, you fail to address the fiscal impact on state and local governments who have borne much of the brunt in paying for increased social services and rental assistance due to the migration surge. By reducing migration-related expenses paid by cities like Chicago and NYC the odds that these cities will need a future federal bailout to make up for budgetary shortfalls goes down.
I agree with everything here. The current Administration is doing everything possible to ensure that the United States will be poorer, sicker, and less free in four years than it is now. There is no mystery to it, we knew it all when Trump and his supporters started their campaigns. The destruction of science and higher education, free press, independent judiciary; the cruelty against immigrants and minorities; the tariffs and the hypocritical MAHA campaign against cheap food and medicines -- all of this was predicted and predictable. Ayn Rand described all of this in Atlas Shrugged, for Pete's sake! It was easy to recognize that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are the real-life versions of Mr. Thompson and James Taggart. So my question to the Cato Institute is simple -- why are you surprised now? Didn't you support the GOP for the past fifty years? Didn't you see where it was going?
This analysis is sloppy and incomplete. For one thing, you do not address the wage effect of deportations on US citizen workers. In labor sectors with a lot of illegal immigrants deportations will reduce the supply of labor, leading to higher wages for US citizen workers. These higher wages will in turn lead to more federal tax revenue, partially offsetting the deficit expansion due to revenue loss from deported workers.
Second, you do not address the potential multiplier effects of immigration enforcement. Immigration enforcement simultaneously disrupts drug cartel, trafficking networks, and wage tax evasion by companies, effectively serving as a "four-in-one" law enforcement approach (similar to how cities can simultaneously reduce youth crime by enforcing truancy laws).
Third, you fail to address the fiscal impact on state and local governments who have borne much of the brunt in paying for increased social services and rental assistance due to the migration surge. By reducing migration-related expenses paid by cities like Chicago and NYC the odds that these cities will need a future federal bailout to make up for budgetary shortfalls goes down.