From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:54:14 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism
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William H. Geiger III, well known Nativist (if not Native) American, writes:
> In <199711192035.VAA20768@basement.replay.com>, on 11/19/97 
>    at 09:35 PM, Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> said:
> 
> >Actually, many studies have found that immigrants, legal and illegal,
> >make a net positive contribution to the economy, even considering their
> >access to government services.
> 
> Yes and 4 out of 5 doctors in an independent study prefer Buffren. Would
> you care to back this up with some actual facts.

>From the Cato Institute, a well known libertarian think tank,
http://www.cato.org/dailys/4-22-97.html:

> Myth number four: Immigrants impose a financial burden on
> taxpayers. Immigrants do make somewhat heavier use of means-tested welfare
> programs than natives. There have been especially flagrant abuses by
> immigrants of particular welfare programs, such as Supplemental Security
> Income. But because immigrants tend to come to the United States during
> the start of their working years --between the ages of 18 and 35 --
> they make very large net contributions to the two largest income transfer
> programs: Social Security and Medicare. When the payroll tax contributions
> of immigrants are taken into account, the Urban Institute found that the
> foreign born constitute a net fiscal windfall to the public sector of
> some $20 billion a year. To the extent that welfare use by immigrants is
> a problem, this can be addressed by restricting the welfare eligibility
> of immigrants, not by keeping immigrants out.

More details can be found by searching for "immigration" on www.cato.org.