The article says this:
Jump of £37bn in budget deficit by 2040 would force government to increase taxes, NIESR predicts
If you were prime minister, would you cut immigration even if it reduces GDP and requires tax rises, or would you keep current levels of immigration?
Anyone who is paying attention should know this.
Migrants, on average, put more into our system than they ultimately get out of it.
If you remove a net contributor to your economy, that just means less to go around, so of course it shrinks.
There are a lot of people pumping money into making sure people who don’t pay attention get the opposite idea though.
Not to mention declining birth rates across the UK. No immigration, no birth rate high enough to maintain the population… A few generations and you’re looking at a mostly geriatric population with not enough people working and putting into pension pots to cover all the folk no longer working. Not enough young people working to CARE for the massive elderly population. Rapid decline in taxes collected. Total collapse. End of the UK.
It’s stupid. It’s not even a huge problem. The biggest thing I hear from people who buy the right-wing propaganda to any extent is that they, illegal and legal immigrants, are taking up all the resources that should go to the less fortunate people from here. I’m an immigrant from Canada, legal, I have no access to public funds and pay a (quite substantial) NHS surcharge on top of paying taxes. A low income/homeless support/advocate group in Glasgow made a statement recently saying that if every illegal immigrant/refugee was removed that day the rooms freed up wouldn’t even house half the homeless people.
They’re not taking away the basically no support for the poor from the government, decades of malicious underfunding and austerity did that.These are the people who look at the USA and applaud.
It’s almost like right wing economics does not work or something!
It’s almost like it’s always been obvious that OF FUCKING COURSE migrants contribute to the economy. They can’t be “comin over ere takin all are jobs” without earning and spending money, after all. 😬
But people in this country are so blinded by hate, they’ll happily vote to make their own lives worse, over and over again, as long as they feel like they’re taking something away from a brown person.
Yay.
Reform voters and the like don’t give a shit about the economy as long as no brown people. And they aren’t against immigration, only for aforementioned brown people.
Woah woah woah
They hate white eastern Europeans too
They care about the economy and being racist; this is just a contradiction in their belief system.
Growing by 3.6% less is not the same thing as shrinking by 3.6%, economists. Personally I’m for open borders and zero GDP growth, ideally.
GDP growth doesn’t help the average person. GDP shrink hurt the average person. Let’s get rid of that dumb metric.
I give you 10$, you give that 10$ to JimBob and Jimbob give it back to me. Same 10$, 30$ in value created. A fucking farce.
GDP growth doesn’t help the average person. GDP shrink can hurt the average person
Fixed it for you.
Like the stock market, only the rich people who own almost everything are directly effected by the GDP growing OR shrinking.
The only way the rest of us are hurt by either is through their unnecessary reactions to their unfathomably vast dragon hoards not accumulating at the rate they expected.
