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Originally Posted by Damien
Well if they pay taxes than this is fine. A lot of people are reaching pension age and there isn't the population to sustain it. As the baby boomer generation reaches retirement age we need more people to pay into the system so that the rest of us can afford their pensions, to redress the population balance.
For all the talk about foreign aid or 'skivers' it's the care and pensions for the elderly that really costs. Got to pay for it somehow...
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If x amount of immigrants arrive and pay taxes, it doesn't end up with x more taxpayers.
That taxable income would not be magically generated from thin air, it is taken from elsewhere. Just as the amount of housing, energy generation, health care, water supply, roads etc doesn't suddenly magically increase.