When The Facts Wreck Your Argument, Bury Them
For years, Western governments and their allies in the media argued that mass immigration was invariably an economic benefit: the immigrants would pay taxes that supported Western pensioners. Suddenly, most of those same governments aren’t too keen to show you the data. The UK, for example, just announced it would no longer break down fiscal data by country of origin.
NEW TODAY: The British Government has made a deliberate ideological decision to stop publishing data about welfare claimants and tax contributions by nationality *specifically* because they fear the data could be used to “skewer debate about immigration” https://t.co/jOgbo9FsPA pic.twitter.com/OpbEecw9s8
— ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 (@kunley_drukpa) March 4, 2024
If you’re wondering why, it’s because the one Western government that’s been honest about this, just blew up their argument. Mass immigration to first world countries is invariably a fiscal drain, because the immigrants (and their children) tend to have lower levels of human capital than the natives.