My MMT view of immigration: let everyone that wants to come, come in; we give them education, we prepare them, and they become active members of the economy, increasing the economic output. Oh, and also, we guarantee jobs for everyone coming in. Have a good Friday!
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Replying to @migueldeicaza
You must understand how many people would come to the United States the day after that policy was enacted, and the social dislocation that would cause.
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Replying to @Pinboard
This needs some process of course, that is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Replying to @migueldeicaza
Yeah, the MMT approach in its purest expression. Give everyone everything; details to follow.
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Replying to @Pinboard @migueldeicaza
Doesn't have to be a unilateral move for a single country; but MMT would suggest the degree a govt can invent money without secondary inflation effects is based on the available workforce to absorb it, more workforce more injection, more employed more output and more great works
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Let people flow to where there is work to be done; obviously there are social complications like enough people in UK didn't like freedom of movement in the EU, hence Brexit
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Replying to @ben_a_adams @migueldeicaza
Right, the point is that outside the Excel spreadsheet that proves this is all win/win/win, nowhere on Earth do people like lots of foreigners showing up in large numbers to stay.
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Replying to @Pinboard @ben_a_adams
My policy proposals are not rooted in catering to racists, that much is true.
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Replying to @migueldeicaza @ben_a_adams
You can be perfectly non-racist and still resent large numbers of outsiders suddenly moving into your community. The process will also make racists out of people who weren't so before. Policy that ignores fundamental facts of human nature is silly and, if implemented, dangerous.
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lol, trust me buddy, there would be a massive difference if it was Scandinavians at the border.
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We've tried that experiment, and don't have to argue it from first principles.pic.twitter.com/MGZ8jXKPFa
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I'm talking about the United States.
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This is some kind of Minnesota erasure
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