Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-05 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 9/4/03 11:03:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, this is a very serious point. Republican administrations are by objective measure MORE socialist. Fundamentally, conservatives in this country do not believe more in individual freedom than liberals. They repeatedly seek

Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Miller
That still avoids my distinction between rhetoric and policy. on 9/5/03 3:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/4/03 11:03:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: here I have to disagree with you Steve. :) The Republican party's ideology runs from classical

Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-05 Thread AdmrlLocke
Yes, an consciously so. While I think it's clear that Republicans generally push for much less government than Democrats do, I also think you're disinclined to accept what seems manifest to me, and since as you know I haven't slept much for the past 10 days, I don't have the energy to write a

immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-04 Thread alypius skinner
Robert Book wrote: Do any of these studies take into account the effect of immigrants on demand? It would see these people have to eat. Judging from the article below (Note carefully what Professor Borjas is saying here. Sure, those immigrants who work do raise overall GDP. But the bulk of

Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-04 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 9/4/03 8:38:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Illegals knowingly break federal law. Many libertarians say they only break laws that shouldn't exist anyway. But this made me wonder. The overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants do not have libertarians views (to put it mildly).

Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-04 Thread Steve Miller
on 9/4/03 8:26 AM, Aschwin de Wolf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Illegals knowingly break federal law. Many libertarians say they only break laws that shouldn't exist anyway. But this made me wonder. The overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants do not have libertarians views (to put it mildly).

Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-04 Thread Steve Miller
on 9/4/03 3:02 PM, alypius skinner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the implication here was so obvious it did not need to be spelled out, but I guess I was mistaken (jab, jab). Importing new voters from very unlibertarian political cultures will further diminish, if not eventually