Comments on: It’s living proof that “trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk” is not silly blackboard economics

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:05:46 +0000

…would have to be astronomical to outweigh the tens of trillions of dollars of gains we’re forfeiting every year from restricting it

No cost is too high when those who pay it are not the same people who reap the gains. As usual.

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:52:36 +0000

McChuck says:

Migration is war. Migrants are invaders.

Led by whom? (thoughtful_frog.jpg)

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 04:34:24 +0000

Do the offspring of aliens acquire a U.S. citizenship owing merely to their birth on the soil of one of the States? The authors of the Fourteenth Amendment did not intend such an outcome. If the Donald causes the undoing of the twisted juridical “logic” that led to the appearance of such supposed Fourteenth Amendment citizenship, precipitating the mass ostensible denaturalization of one hundred million from the United State, he will go down as the most consequential president in American history.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:28:18 +0000

Caplan is right that mass immigration is an economic benefit as long as immigrants are a tightly controlled helot class.

Like most economic theories, this ignores an obvious externality, the evil of having a tightly controlled helot class.

And like most stuff on immigration that gets through D media censorship, this is blowing smoke to cover for the evil of the D party importing a hundred million ringers.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:36:37 +0000

Bryan Caplan visited the UAE and wrote up his thoughts. His economically informed recommendations are simultaneously extremist and centrist: far more legal immigration, no benefits for immigrants.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:28:44 +0000

We are in the midst of the largest migration/invasion since the Germanic tribes overran the Western Roman Empire.

By: McChuck

McChuck — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:04:42 +0000

Migration is war. Migrants are invaders.

By: James James

James James — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:58:12 +0000

Caplan knows f-all about the UAE. It has a highly selective immigration system, almost never grants citizenship, and if you lose your job you go home.

By: Eric Brown

Eric Brown — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:20:07 +0000

Are the UAE similar to Qatar, where the immigrant population are effectively slaves (Passports confiscated, not permitted to travel freely, etc.)?