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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't want to "hurt" anyone. Open borders are not a natural state of affairs. It's a choice. It's not "economic reality" unless you choose to make it that way. If you choose to open the borders and let anyone in, you hurt poor people.
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Actully open borders are the natural state of affairs. Borders are an artificial construct and limitation for immigration was really something invented in the second half of the Republic.
What Sebby is pointing out is that borders like price controls are an attempt at denying economic reality. And when you sit in denial of the reality of economic forces you implement policies that just make the whole situation worse.
Your argument is the classic liberal refrain of, "economic forces are not fair so the government needs to redistribute the money to make things fair." A concept that has proven time and time again to not only be economically ignorant but leads to utterly disastrous policy desisions.
As much as you don't like it, the United States is completely interconnected with the rest of the world' and that is an economic reality that borders, immigration rules and tariffs can't change.
Whether these Mexicans are on our side of the border or in Mexico they are still our problem and are part of the regions economy.
Just like mechanization puts people out of jobs, and India manufacturs things cheaper, there is an economic reality that there are millions of cheap laborers on this continent that speak Spanish.
The best way to deal with this issue is not for the government to decide that certain people are unfaily hurt by this reality and then try and provide compensation to those people to make things "fair", the best thing the government can do is provide a climate that allows for as much economic growth as possible. This growth will then create the greatest amount of economic benefit for the greatest amount of people. Your attempt at redistributing the wealth, if implemented, will simply hamper such growth.
How long is going to take to sink in that the song of "the government needs to compensate the people that have lost money unfairly to economic forces" is about as stupid an economic idea that there is.
