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CMV: Open Borders are incompatible with universal health care, free K-12 education, and welfare

After watching the latest Democrat debate, I can’t comprehend the logic behind advocating for a large welfare state and universal health care while also supporting open borders and a decriminalization of border crossings. These seem completely incompatible with each other unless taxes were raised massively to adjust for the increased population of people who wouldn’t be paying much in taxes or contributing a significant amount to the economy. I don’t pretend to have an advanced understanding of economics, but this seems like common sense to me. 

I’m hoping to see the other side and how one could support both at the same time. CMV!
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Turns out that people make more money and contribute more to society when you make basic investments in their wellbeing and *don’t* prevent them from working in the normal economy.

Just because a person is a refugee or an immigrant from a poor country doesn’t mean they’re fundamentally stupid, lazy, incapable, etc. Give people a chance and secure basic rights for them and they’ll often turn around and do far more for us than we do for them.

As an aside: an open borders policy actually makes social services easier to administer because it reduces poverty, lets people enter the normal workforce (and earn higher wages as a result—meaning less welfare), pay taxes correctly, let’s them get education for themselves and their children, etc. Immigration is overwhelmingly a net economic good, and making immigration a lot easier and cheaper would give the US a major economic advantage over the rest of the first world. Of course, neither party actually supports open borders. The Democrats are too spineless to actually embrace fundamental immigration reform like open borders. They just support the status quo—second class residents who are denied legal rights, but given enough welfare to prevent them from starving. 

Especially if we combined it with generous social services and strong labor rights. We’d pretty much become *the* place to do business.