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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
The problem is that the people moving out are mostly middle class and upper middle class taxpayers and to a significant extent they are being replaced by low-wage, unskilled immigrants who may earn too little to pay taxes at all but use benefits which California, more than most states, makes them eligible to receive.
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Immigrants to U.S. now end to be better educated than native-born, have much higher upward mobility, and generate far more net tax revenue than native born. Elderly, infirm, addicts, those on welfare, unemployed, criminals, etc. are disproportionally native-born and have greatest tax burden.
This should be especially obvious to someone living in the immigrant techie wealth-driven Bay Area, and in a state bathing in a vast gusher of immigrant-driven tax revenue.
The easiest way to make the U.S. richer, with lower proportionate tax burden and social pathology, is to open up the immigration floodgates. Cupertino vs. Selma.