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William M Briggs's avatar

I was once hired at Cato to be part of a "climate change" red team. But was fired right as I was supposed to begin, because they 'discovered' my public statements against "same sex marriage."

Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Who funds CATO? Follow the money.

Eric Rasmusen's avatar

Nicely done. Cato should be ashamed of itself. We should never trust any of their studies, unless they repudiate this one.

Will Whitman's avatar

Sociopaths don't feel shame. They're not normal humans.

Burchell Wilson's avatar

Beautiful writing, and powerful.

URsomoney's avatar

Similar to the “safe & effective” slogan for vaccines, I always wonder if these people are not that smart & true believers in these garbage studies or if it’s more nefarious. I assume someone knows what they’re producing is a lie & they surround themselves with dummies.

PETER GUDER's avatar

Love the footnotes and Intro / Framing. Banger.

Dennis Dale's avatar

Excellent work

Lorenzo Warby's avatar

European studies have very different results.

Jan van den Beek, Hans Roodenburg, Joop Hartog, Gerrit Kreffer, ‘Borderless Welfare State - The Consequences of Immigration for Public Finances,’ 2023. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371951423_Borderless_Welfare_State_-_The_Consequences_of_Immigration_for_Public_Finances

Jan van de Beek, Joop Hartog, Gerrit Kreffer, Hans Roodenburg, The Long-Term Fiscal Impact of Immigrants in the Netherlands, Differentiated by Motive, Source Region and Generation, IZA DP No. 17569, December 2024. https://docs.iza.org/dp17569

European Commission, Projecting The Net Fiscal Impact Of Immigration In The EU, EU Science Hub, 2020. https://migrant-integration.ec.europa.eu/library-document/projecting-net-fiscal-impact-immigration-eu_en

M.F. Hansen, M.L. Schultz-Nielsen,& T. Tranæs, ‘The fiscal impact of immigration to welfare states of the Scandinavian type,’ Journal of Population Economics 30, 925–952 (2017), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-017-0636-1

J Guti's avatar

His mother is Betsy Giffen... sounds pretty jewey to me.