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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This needs some process of course, that is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Yeah, the MMT approach in its purest expression. Give everyone everything; details to follow.
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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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The UK govt and right-wing press in UK was quite adept at shifting blame of our own govt's failings to the "other"; the poor and the EU. Redirecting people's legitimate anger into their xenophobia and reducing govt's accountability like this needs to prevented as a first step?
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This removes agency from the people who noticed, for example, 100,000 Polish economic migrants arriving in the UK practically overnight, and arrived at xenophobia all on their own
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For example scrapping any funding to ease pressure from migration on housing, schools and hospitals was an action by the UK govt to ratchet up effects on services to local communities. Is that the migrants fault or a govt policy issue?https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/aug/06/fund-impact-immigration-scrapped …
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I don't think any of this is the migrants' fault. Migrants gonna migrate. I'm saying migration will put entirely predictable political pressure on governments to react in this way, and create incentives for cynical political actors.
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