ARNOLD KLING
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The Top Political Contributors
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Gender and the New Commanding Heights
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Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
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Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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Hmm. I also like the idea of allowing in as many Poles and Ukrainians to California as possible. But I guess that's not exactly what Bryan has in mind.
You realize the study referred to in the post only looks at legal migration.
California's problem isn't legal migration; it's illegal immigration. There are several studies that show that illegal immigration is a net loss to California. What California gains in economic growth from the cheap labor, it loses in the costs of providing social services. The numbers vary, but it is always a loss.
The California illegal immigration problem can be addressed thus. The employer employs the illegal immigrants at a wage lower than market value, knowing that the other costs will be absorbed by the state (through welfare payments, health care facilities, et cetera). The state interference prevents the market from working.
There is of course a flip side to this. Most of the Junkers also supported the repressive and expansionistic policies of both Hitler and the Kaiser. And while a few Junker officers did join the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt, the vast majority supported Hitler down to the bitter end. The Junkers did have their good points. But, on balance, they mostly deserve their bad historical reputation.
The Junkers didn't just make a noble attempt at tyrannicide in 1944...
Bryan aren't you a pacifist?