He's totally opposed to open borders which he claims is a Koch idea. So his socialism is not internationalist in bent?
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/what-is-difference-between-socialist.html
Does that mean he's for 'socialism in one country?' There are a lot of attempts to draw symmetries between him and Trump but on this there is some truth. Ok, he would never say the anti Mexican rants that Trump did-I mean very few of us would-but on policy he's not got a great record.
"If I could add one amendment to the Constitution, it would be the one Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Robert Bartley once proposed: "There shall be open borders." There is no single policy that the United States could adopt that would do more good for more people. An average Nigerian worker can increase his income almost 15-foldjust by moving to the United States, and residents of significantly richer countries like Mexico can more than double their earnings. The humanitarian gains of letting everyone who wants to make that leap do so would be astounding."
"So I was disappointed, if not surprised, at the visceral horror with which Bernie Sanders reacted to the idea when interviewed by my colleague Ezra Klein. "Open borders?" he interjected. "No, that's a Koch brothers proposal." The idea, he argued, is a right-wing scheme meant to flood the US with cheap labor and depress wages for native-born workers. "I think from a moral responsibility, we've got to work with the rest of the industrialized world to address the problems of international poverty," he conceded, "but you don't do that by making people in this country even poorer."
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/29/9048401/bernie-sanders-open-borders
A Bernie maniac will probably just dismiss this-after all when I pointed out that he's weak on gun control a Bernie fan told me that gun control isn't that important- but if Hillary were the one who says things like this do you think they wouldn't make a huge issue out of it?
As Dyaln Mathews says there are two problems with this one moral, one economic.
It's surprising that Sanders still buys into the fallacy that Mexicans and other immigrants will take all our jobs.
As economist Michael Clemens once told me, the effect of immigration on real wages for native workers is "definitely positive, without any doubt whatsoever." A recentevidence review by researcher David Roodman confirms this: While low-skilled immigration can make the existing low-skilled immigrant population worse off (though almost certainly not worse off than in their country of origin), Americans born here have very little to worry about, and a lot to gain.
"It's true that all of our empirical research pertains to increases in immigration that are milder than pure open borders. The best we have to go on in guessing the effects of a total open-border policy are simulations. But those simulations show an increase in world GDP massive enough that it's fair to guess they'll hold harmless or help US workers — just as the data suggests smaller-scale immigration does. "This isn’t just trickle-down economics. It’s Niagara Falls economics," economist Bryan Caplan once told me. "If production in the world were to double, almost everyone is going to get enough of that doubling that they’re going to, in the end, be better off as a result."
"If Bernie Sanders thinks we ought to give strict priority to the interests of immigrants already in the United States, even if doing so makes native-born workers and potential migrants worse off, then that's a very interesting opinion that I'd love to hear him attempt to defend. But the claim that American-born workers would suffer from open borders and increased immigration is bogus, and he should stop making it."
It's not surprising that he has not caught on among Hispanic voters.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/what-is-difference-between-socialist.html
Does that mean he's for 'socialism in one country?' There are a lot of attempts to draw symmetries between him and Trump but on this there is some truth. Ok, he would never say the anti Mexican rants that Trump did-I mean very few of us would-but on policy he's not got a great record.
"If I could add one amendment to the Constitution, it would be the one Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Robert Bartley once proposed: "There shall be open borders." There is no single policy that the United States could adopt that would do more good for more people. An average Nigerian worker can increase his income almost 15-foldjust by moving to the United States, and residents of significantly richer countries like Mexico can more than double their earnings. The humanitarian gains of letting everyone who wants to make that leap do so would be astounding."
"So I was disappointed, if not surprised, at the visceral horror with which Bernie Sanders reacted to the idea when interviewed by my colleague Ezra Klein. "Open borders?" he interjected. "No, that's a Koch brothers proposal." The idea, he argued, is a right-wing scheme meant to flood the US with cheap labor and depress wages for native-born workers. "I think from a moral responsibility, we've got to work with the rest of the industrialized world to address the problems of international poverty," he conceded, "but you don't do that by making people in this country even poorer."
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/29/9048401/bernie-sanders-open-borders
A Bernie maniac will probably just dismiss this-after all when I pointed out that he's weak on gun control a Bernie fan told me that gun control isn't that important- but if Hillary were the one who says things like this do you think they wouldn't make a huge issue out of it?
As Dyaln Mathews says there are two problems with this one moral, one economic.
It's surprising that Sanders still buys into the fallacy that Mexicans and other immigrants will take all our jobs.
As economist Michael Clemens once told me, the effect of immigration on real wages for native workers is "definitely positive, without any doubt whatsoever." A recentevidence review by researcher David Roodman confirms this: While low-skilled immigration can make the existing low-skilled immigrant population worse off (though almost certainly not worse off than in their country of origin), Americans born here have very little to worry about, and a lot to gain.
"It's true that all of our empirical research pertains to increases in immigration that are milder than pure open borders. The best we have to go on in guessing the effects of a total open-border policy are simulations. But those simulations show an increase in world GDP massive enough that it's fair to guess they'll hold harmless or help US workers — just as the data suggests smaller-scale immigration does. "This isn’t just trickle-down economics. It’s Niagara Falls economics," economist Bryan Caplan once told me. "If production in the world were to double, almost everyone is going to get enough of that doubling that they’re going to, in the end, be better off as a result."
"If Bernie Sanders thinks we ought to give strict priority to the interests of immigrants already in the United States, even if doing so makes native-born workers and potential migrants worse off, then that's a very interesting opinion that I'd love to hear him attempt to defend. But the claim that American-born workers would suffer from open borders and increased immigration is bogus, and he should stop making it."
It's not surprising that he has not caught on among Hispanic voters.
P.S. For a Bernie maniac an unimportant issue is one that he's weak on. Like immigration, gun control, and racial issues.
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