By Paul on 07-03-08

The article’s next-to-last paragraph helps spread the appealing, but wrong, notion that the mass immigration of low-skilled people (which is what today’s immigration flow dominantly consists of) will rescue Social Security.  It won’t—the new entrants don’t earn much and, thus, don’t pay much in taxes.  In fact, many of them get back a lot more—via Earned Income Tax Credit and various welfare-style benefits—than they pay in.  Plus they’re not much younger, on average, than the existing U.S. population, and they’ll be retiring, too!  They’ll actually increase the problem!  You’ll find plenty of data to back up what I say by looking at the articles available at the Center for Immigration Studies (mentioned in the article) website, http://www.cis.org  .