immigration is an economic benefit to the united states? are they lying or are they misguided? it s about redistribution. the elites on top obviously are the ones who benefit from the redistribution. the employers benefit from the reduced wages. and the american people, average americans, american workers, what used to be the middlee class, they get hurt. they are at the bottom. it s a complete scam, and everything about our labor force shifted to this postindustrial superpower information economy. suggests that massive illegal immigration tolerated on a long-term basis or chain migration that deskills the labor flow, gives the american people incredibly bad poorly served. tucker: sounds that way. when hear people defend it, what they re really defending is their own prerogatives. rich people, when they defend it, they are basically defending it because they are getting a lot out of it, but you are not. in the 80s, when i had hair for shampooing, everybody knew people who actu
there was income and expenditures. they left out a big benefit on the positive side of the balance sheet, which is gdp. talk about illegal immigrants make up about 5% of all workers in america which is close to a trillion dollars a year of productivity coming out of the united states. the cost, which i think are wildly inflated, i could debate this with you for a long time,s. the net benefit to the country is still in the hundreds ofou billions of dollars if you have an honest balance sheet. tucker: no, actually, tucker: no, actually, o your accounting clearly was in washington a while. using gdp is the measure of prosperity a matter of productivity. tucker: it doesn t matter how much you make, it matters how much you make minus what you spend. business also has a net worth so part of the whole premise of gdp is that the workers of the united states, not the businessr the workers create a certain amount of wealth. $18 trillion a year in the segment of that that is made up b