Just in case you're wondering, Ian isn't on the council house waiting list, isn't low skilled & has no child needing a school place... https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/834752541032329216 …
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Yep, if only they currently had the same amount of kids Brits used to have and would be self-funding.
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yes, but importing more people just delays the problem, rather than solve it. Ageing societies everywhere.
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...sounds to me like you're agreeing the tax take will be down.
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nope. Tax take per capita is what matters. If most of new intake are not net contributors, we are all worse off.
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... and conversely, if most of the new intake *are* net contributors, we are all better off.
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but they're not.
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Look at the crazy problems Japan now has. You and I would be fine, but our kids wouldn't. But let's leave that to them to sort out
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Japan has many problems but there is a middle ground between their VERY low immigration & our mass uncontrolled immigration
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You're blaming lack of council housing on immigrants? You're poison.
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immigrants are a net contributor to our economy pay taxes etc so why shouldn't they have pensions?
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next you'll be blaming immigrants for closing 1000s of hospital beds.
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thatcher and Blair failed 2build houses to create property boom. That's how neoliberal economics work
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Engineered scarcity. Makes no sense for homebuilders to build more housing that will bring price down
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stats show immigrants frequently return home in older age, we get in their most productive time, after school b4 OAP
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