Immigrants will do work that Americans won’t. That’s what defenders and critics of immigration say. Which means even defenders miss what is arguably the bigger, more pertinent positive about immigrants: they’ll travel long distances frequently by foot, to do work that Americans won’t do. The lengths gone to by immigrants to find work stateside […]
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There were “lines for everything” in the former Soviet Union. That’s what Hedrick Smith conveyed to rapt readers in his 1976 book, The Russians. As frustrated Americans endured long waits for price-controlled gasoline in the 1970s, Smith reminded Americans of how good they had it through Russians for whom shopping was an endless, frequently fruitless
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It was 1994, and the Republicans had just taken control of the House of Representatives. After the change Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane received a call from Fannie Mae, one in which he was told of a pending donation from the public/private mortgage giant. Crane knew the why behind the contribution: it reflected Fannie
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