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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Sorry, can you re-word that question as I can't understand what you are asking......
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A UK national could be doing that job and paying the Tax/NI that the non UK national is paying. IE it is not new additional income for the country, it is just replacing who is the "payer". That is before you consider the benefits paid out to the UK national who is instead unemployed. There may be additional GDP generated simply because there is extra demand for things like food etc. Then you also have to factor in the money sent back to the "home" country. Economic activity relies on money passing from A to B to C and so on within the country. As soon as it moves out of the country, even on buying imported items, it is lost to this country and has a bigger negative effect than the amount involved. All in all the financial "benefits" of immigration are wildly exaggerated.