Libertariansk sociolog: Indvandringen har alvorlige konsekvenser

Har indvandringen til vesten en pris, eller er den en gevinst? Hvis den har en pris, hvem skal så betale den. Dette er et emne, der ikke alene diskuteres i Danmark, men i hele Europa samt i USA.

I et længere interview forleden har den kendte libertarianske sociolog Charles Murray udtalt sig om emnet, og hans egen ændrede holdning til globalisering og immigration.

“I was very benign about globalization. I didn’t pay much attention to what large-scale immigration meant in the United States. I read The Economist and you know of many of them who say, when you look at it from the macroeconomic point of view, the immigrants are a plus-plus. They are not displacing Americans from jobs – you’re familiar with that literature.

I am willing to believe on a macro sense they may be right. It is also true on a micro sense, there have also been many cases of guys who are making a decent wage as roofers and now can’t make a decent wage as roofers because illegal immigrants are being hired by roofing companies at well below the rates, including payroll taxes that have to be paid, that does happen, too.”

Se hele interviewet her. Der er også link til to andre interessante interviews om hhv. reformkonservatisme og udenrigspolitik med hhv. redaktøren Yuval Levin og den neokonservative hardliner Charles Krauthammer.