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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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No it isn't. Adding to the population doesn't solve the problem it just makes the problem bigger and becomes a merry-go-round. If migration is going to be the solution to the care/pensions crisis it has to be temporary migration not permanent. We digress anyway...
Surely the best way of controlling our prison population is to persuade people not to go down that route in the first place and even control our population better. Building more and more prisons to hold more and more people isn't sustainable. We may not like the idea of having controls on the number of children we can have but frankly I see it becoming inevitable.