The notion that immigrants are a threat to your job has a few elements, just one that I want to explore here.
If an immigrant is a threat to your job it means that if you were to swap places with that immigrant, you would lose money. That is to say, the immigrant has an incentive to come here to take "your" job because it pays more than "his" job back home. And if you moved to his town to replace him, you would make much less.
So that suggests that there is a wage premium for living here in the US.
Curiously, the voters who assume that they are making more money for living here are also the ones who don't want to pay additional taxes to live here because "they earned it." It's an odd kind of recognition of a system they're reluctant to support.
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Doesn't this profoundly confuse government (to whom we pay taxes) with society (which creates the "premium")?
I realize that there is overlap, especially the days, but they are distinct.
The existence of a wage premium for living in America does not create a, theoretically unlimited, personal liability to fund government programs.
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