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Originally Posted by jfman
I appreciate that’s the theory (and has been put into practice for some time) but with artificially finite housing supply it pushes up the biggest element of outgoings for most people - housing.
It also drives up demand for public services, school places, wider state funded babysitting, public transport costs, health services. It’s far from clean cut and only delays that it has to be addressed properly sooner or later.
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That’s why I said taxpayers. People of working age tend to be net contributors to the government. It’s the very young and old that cost more than they contribute. I know a couple of people who are staying in the UK on visas and it is surprisingly limited and expensive to do. Both have to pay an NHS surcharge for access to healthcare and both have ‘no recourse to public funds’ which means that they have no social security safety net.
Pretty much the only direct benefit they get is school for their kids and that’s because education is both a legal requirement and a human right