Lazy Hard-workers? Or Hard-working Bums?
2 May 2007
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Robert Samuelson misses an important point when he discusses immigration ("Seeking Sense on Immigration," May 2).
Anti-immigrationists who worry so raucously about immigrants using taxpayer-funded welfare should lead the charge to eliminate the countless restrictions aimed at preventing immigrants from working legally. It's phony to insist that immigrants' employment options be severely restricted and then, in the next breath, to pontificate about the need to keep immigrants from using welfare.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Robert Samuelson misses an important point when he discusses immigration ("Seeking Sense on Immigration," May 2).
Anti-immigrationists who worry so raucously about immigrants using taxpayer-funded welfare should lead the charge to eliminate the countless restrictions aimed at preventing immigrants from working legally. It's phony to insist that immigrants' employment options be severely restricted and then, in the next breath, to pontificate about the need to keep immigrants from using welfare.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Tuesday December 18, 2007 at 7:58am