Burn Jason Richwine at the stake!!!!

[Blaster]

Here's my immigration policy: Do you have a criminal record? No. Are you willing to work? Yes. Welcome to America.

Which is precisely the policy that the heritage foundation takes pains to describe as a very naive and self-destructive position. At least: that attitude is not compatible with the current attitude towards government spending and social welfare.

Specifically: "can work" does not imply "net tax surplus." And a flood of people who are unable to go from being net tax consumers to net tax payers will burden the government and lower the standard of living for everyone except those who directly benefit from the immigrant labor (IOW the top 1% who benefit from high food and housing prices and hire maids and lawncare workers)

If you want to actually debunk the Heritage paper you have to address that fundamental assertion.

 

[NY Digital]

Here's my immigration policy: Do you have a criminal record? No. Are you willing to work? Yes. Welcome to America.

"Will you actually work after I let you in and not take all the benefits this country has to offer?"

"Of course man. America is land of freedom..."

 

[Kabal]

Here's my immigration policy: Do you have a criminal record? No. Are you willing to work? Yes. Welcome to America.

Which is precisely the policy that the heritage foundation takes pains to describe as a very naive and self-destructive position. At least: that attitude is not compatible with the current attitude towards government spending and social welfare.

Specifically: "can work" does not imply "net tax surplus." And a flood of people who are unable to go from being net tax consumers to net tax payers will burden the government and lower the standard of living for everyone except those who directly benefit from the immigrant labor (IOW the top 1% who benefit from high food and housing prices and hire maids and lawncare workers)

If you want to actually debunk the Heritage paper you have to address that fundamental assertion.

Another reason why we need to restrict IQ to the right tail of intelligence/productivity.

The average person is a net tax-consumer. Thus, the probabilistic break-even point is well to the right of the middle of the cognitive ability bell curve.

 

[Blaster]

I don't buy the racialist arguments. 200 years ago, English descendants argued that America shouldn't let in the Irish and the Germans, because they wouldn't culturally assimilate. 150 years ago, nativists argued the same thing about Southern and Eastern Europeans. As late as WWI, people were using IQ tests to argue for Jewish inferiority. They were all wrong. It's nice to think that we have it right this time, but I don't buy it.

There's no point in trying to reason with the Steve Sailer types.

WIA

It would help, if you want to reason, to actually read the relevant papers and theories.