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Originally Posted by nomadking
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.
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Equally, ex-pats could use our hospitals. I have a cousin who (for tax reasons) only stays in the UK for 90 days a year. He does not pay any tax (although his wife and baby son are UK residents, so she, at least, does). If he should fall ill during a stay here, there is nothing legally wrong with him doing so. He is, after all, still English.
Yet, morally, he would have less right to do so than a woman who came over from India and within a few days, got a low paid job in Sainsburys.
My point is that just because someone is not White and British does not mean they don't pay their way, anymore than someone being White and British does mean they pay their way.
Now, Gary, looking around, can you honestly tell me who is paying their taxes and NI?