Intermarkets' Privacy Policy Support
Donate to Ace of Spades HQ! Recent Entries
Gun Thread: Pre- TXMoMe Edition!
Third Trump Assassination Thwarted Food Thread: Hummus! Is There A Pun To Be Made With Humus? No. First-World Problems... Tampon Timmy Does Another Failed "Make Me Look Normal" Event Sunday Morning Book Thread - 10-13-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel] Daily Tech News 13 October 2024 Saturday Overnight Open Thread (10/12/24) Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: An Evening With John Carpenter (Prince of Darkness/The Thing) Hobby Thread - October 12, 2024 [TRex] Absent Friends
Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024 Captain Hate 2023 moon_over_vermont 2023 westminsterdogshow 2023 Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022 Dave In Texas 2022 Jesse in D.C. 2022 OregonMuse 2022 redc1c4 2021 Tami 2021 Chavez the Hugo 2020 Ibguy 2020 Rickl 2019 Joffen 2014 AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published.
Contact OrangeEnt for info:
maildrop62 at proton dot me Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups
|
« Tuesday Morning News Dump |
Main
| Jeff Flake: I'll Flip on Toomey-Manchin in Exchange for a Concession on Internet Sales »
May 07, 2013
Team Amnesty: Ignore The Meanies At Heritage And Trust The CBO On The Cost Of AmnestyYesterday's report from the Heritage Foundation on the costs of amnesty has proponents worried. Today they are out in full force trying to discredit the report. Greg Sargent calls this Washington Post editorial attacking Heritage "brutal" to the anti-amnesty case. Personally, I'd sum it up as "Heritage is right but we don't care". The Heritage paper, chock-full of assumptions that most economists dispute, is a blatant attempt to twist the immigration debate. It concludes that newly legalized immigrants would cost $6.3 trillion more in benefits over their lifetime than they would pay in taxes. (That’s $5.3 trillion more than they would cost without legalization, the think tank said.) The study updates a similar one by Heritage in 2007, which pegged the fiscal cost of amnesty at that time at a mere $2.6 trillion. Ah, so the costs Heritage outlines are real but they'll be offset by some mythical benefits from flooding the legal labor market with low skilled workers. (Yes, this is a case of role-reversal. Conservatives generally support "dynamic scoring" and liberals oppose it. Unlike scoring tax cuts thought there's no history to rely on when it comes to gauging mass amnesty of low skied workers in a depressed economy.) If low skill workers are the key to prosperity, why do we spend hundreds of billions dollars a year on educations and training programs? Shouldn't we just let people make their way with crappy public education and let the good times roll? The Washington Post has one more ace up their sleeve in attacking Heritage's "political document"..."the CBO is likely to make clear when it publishes what is certain to be its more dispassionate, and less political, assessment of the proposed legislation." The CBO? The same organization that swore up and down that ObamaCare was going to cut the deficit? Yeah, let's trust them on the cost and benefits of amnesty. What could go wrong? Pro amnesty group American Action Forum, led by by a Republican former head of the CBO Douglas Holtz-Eakin says amnesty will be good for the economy because it will lead to "labor force That would be a good argument if you thought our labor force problem was one of insufficient population and not a lack of jobs. Even the AP doesn't buy that. After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to bring people back into the job market. It was one thing to do amnesty during the white hot Reagan economy of the mid to late 80s. It's quite another to do it in the midst of the Obama depression. But maybe things aren't as bad as they seem for those opposed to amnesty. According to the terms of the bill, nearly one-third of illegals here will be ineligible for amnesty and will be deported. Last month, Rubio’s office put out a press release stating: “FACT: If the proposed immigration bill does pass, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who do not qualify for temporary legal status will be subject to deportation. The legislation also provides for enhanced punishment as well as increased funding for deportation of future illegal immigrants. … Even for illegal immigrants who attain temporary status, that temporary status can be revoked if they commit a serious crime or if they fail to comply with the employment requirement, the public charge requirement (which goes hand-in-hand with the employment requirement), their tax obligations and their physical presence obligations. They will then be subject to deportation.” (Emphasis added.) Now personally I'm opposed to mass round ups and deportations but if that's what Rubio, Schumer and the rest of Team Amnesty say they are going to do, well they wouldn't lie. Would they? | Recent Comments
GWB:
"Also, I am beginning to think it's a conspiracy th ..."
GWB: "[i]The assassination-attempt reports follow a tens ..." Duncanthrax: "Captain Dan >>>>>>>>>> Cap'n Bill ..." Doug E.: "Well, I spent a lifetime looking for the perfect N ..." Don Black: ">Secretary Lloyd Austin authorized the deployment ..." fd: "Oh, now I read about it and feel foolish for impug ..." blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1): "The left can't even produce a competent assassin. ..." Marcus T: "You don’t try to get through a security peri ..." rhomboid : "Probably already mentioned, but the drone thing at ..." IrishEi: ">>>Cans or cons? It makes a difference you know. ..." Soothsayer : " So he doesn't believe in govt documents...but ha ..." Duncanthrax: "[i] Looks at email. Sees cigar review.didn't send ..." Recent Entries
Gun Thread: Pre- TXMoMe Edition!
Third Trump Assassination Thwarted Food Thread: Hummus! Is There A Pun To Be Made With Humus? No. First-World Problems... Tampon Timmy Does Another Failed "Make Me Look Normal" Event Sunday Morning Book Thread - 10-13-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel] Daily Tech News 13 October 2024 Saturday Overnight Open Thread (10/12/24) Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: An Evening With John Carpenter (Prince of Darkness/The Thing) Hobby Thread - October 12, 2024 [TRex] Search
Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Primary Document: The Audio
Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings) George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer Top Top Tens
Democratic Forays into Erotica New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party" Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?" Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance Collective Names for Groups of People John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive" Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments John Edwards Campaign Excuses John Kerry Pick-Up Lines Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney Torments in Dog-Hell Greatest Hitjobs
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny More Margaret Cho Abuse Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed" Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means Wonkette's Stand-Up Act Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report! Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet The House of Love: Paul Krugman A Michael Moore Mystery (TM) The Dowd-O-Matic! Liberal Consistency and Other Myths Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate "Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long) The Donkey ("The Raven" parody) |