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Opening the Floodgates |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICA |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 348 Words, 2,269 Characters |
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The great wealth and productivity of the U.S. economy offer the clearest example in history of a large-scale success in the free-market form of societal organization. While most economists will support the notion that free trad...
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...o would stand to benefit; the natives, however, may not choose to count those as gains to Americans but as gains to foreigners who are going to become Americans. Therefore, the votes of many who might benefit do not show up in the proposal to open the borders. Thus, it is not likely that current citizens are willing to risk losses in such a significant experiment.
----J.F.C., J.D.B., P.M.W.
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