antagon
The Man
- Dec 6, 2009
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The US admits one million immigrants legally every year. Isn't that enough?
any number is enough. 0-300 million, whatever.
Toro is remarking on the globalization economy in which every country should want to brain drain their nation state rivals. Call it intellectual mercantilism.
If we are gonna adhere to globalization, and I hope we don't, but if we do, he is clearly right. We should seal the borders tight as a drum and apply strict standards for entry. As strict as we can get away with. But stream line admittance for the most qualified.
The number doesn't matter. Israel accepts anybody at all who can attest to Jewish lineage because they want the best brain trust that can be secured.
What might only be a modest advantage now becomes a very significant advantage two gens later.
Opening the borders to anybody who dares cross from a third world nation is a kind of economic suicide.
antagon prescribes charging ~$5k per visa, renewable annually with a mandatory 3 year visa status prior to paying another $5k for a citizenship. this will help to filter for economically active immigrants or those whose employers will sponsor them. it will fund our public sector based on those who are hoping to exploit it - an emerging trend in taxation of which i approve. it could provide for lower tax rates to be sustained for the rest of us, and potentially fund some of my other tricks.