RE: labour/immigration26 Sep 2018 19:47
"over the years that followed the flow continued unabated but by and large alareg proportion of the influx found employment and thus "contributed to society and paid for services used"
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I disagree, a even if a Migrant gets a job immediately if they come here with kids that go to school and use the NHS, Dr's surgery etc it takes them a good number of years before they have paid in enough into the system to cover what they are taking out.
And after they've earned their salary and paid income tax, there's no study that measures the amount of money they are sending as international payments to their home countries, to their families, it doesn't take much imagination to work out that this is probably quite a bit. And it's not included in the "Net Contribution" figures it's claimed they make. In fact there was a study done by one of the lords in the house of Lords if I recall rightly that actually puts the contribution immigration make in terms of tax as "neutral", so they don't contribute more or less than they take.
The figures vary, but it seems common sense to me that someone who has just arrived is going to take a long time to pay in enough into the system if their kids go to state school, they get vaccinated and treated if needed by the NHS, same for the rest of the family.
And for those low skilled workers they probably never pay in enough money into the system. The same could be said of our low skilled workers as it's well know that low skilled workers are subsidised by the overall tax payer. Now that's not their fault, it's the fault of the companies in paying them enough so they make a good contribution to UK finances.
Now that is Marxism I can get behind, the company doesn't lose equity, but they pay more in wages... that way the employee pays more in tax as a result of earning more... the company can pass the cost of this increase in wages on in higher prices... and if we limit the immigration coming the cost of housing will go down due to lower demand which will more than offset the cost in products increasing from the higher wages.
This would also solve the problem of having to pay people universal credit as they would be earning enough to actually have a life, and they'd eventually be able to buy a house if wages rise as fast or faster than property prices.
This country is the 5th biggest economy in the world. But it ranks number 23 on the list of countries by GDP PER CAPITA... this means the money is not spread equally. There are better ways to fairly redistribute it without screwing the economy in the process, the above is one of them.
So the only unhappy people are the people investing in property... those who have bought a house to live in don't care as long as their house is rising or falling in line with everyone elses house.... those that have bought residential property to invest in, well tough... we need less of th