« Jonathan Wells is dead

I didn’t watch the vice pres debate last night

Because I knew our media would give me a short, objective, non-judgmental response this morning.

That is accurate. No pinocchios. It is true, if the Republicans deport 12 million people, that will make more housing units available for purchase or rental. That actually is a kind of housing proposal.

« Jonathan Wells is dead

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  2. mordred says

    Well apart from the idea of deporting millions of people being morally fucked up Nazi shit, removing a few million people from the workforce would come with a few drawbacks, like nobody to fix your nice new cheaper flat, no food in the stores and no one to collect your garbage.

    But then Trump and Vance and their fans are a bunch of racists, and racists don’t like to think.

  3. invivoMark says

    Deporting people doesn’t solve a housing problem, it just shifts it to a different part of the world. And since the economy is global, that still affects us, just in different ways.

    And as pointed out, it creates a labor shortage. Without immigration, the US population will not grow, and that leaves a smaller workforce with a greater share of retirees. The housing problem would probably get worse with fewer builders around.

  4. says

    There’s a housing problem because slumlords are buying up properties to rent out as Air B&Bs, because unfettered capitalism.

  5. raven says

    Alabama not too long ago, passed an anti-immigration law. It was a disaster.

    Wikipedia:

    Industries dependent on migrant labor were strongly impacted. Farmers found that Americans are not willing to work under such harsh working conditions for low pay.[14] Some businesses in other industries lost workers, including legal workers, as a result of the new immigration law.[15]
    and
    Contrary to expectation, there was no job growth in sectors where Latinos typically work – construction, agriculture, and poultry processing.[18]
    and
    In 2012, a study by Dr. Samuel Addy of the University of Alabama estimated that HB56 could shrink the state’s annual GDP by $11 billion or almost 6%, a result of lost sales and income taxes and fall in demand from lost consumers.[19

    If I remember correctly, mostly what happened is that undocumented immigrants just moved out of Alabama.

    It’s not enforced any more either.

    Alabama’s 2011 anti-immigrant law H.B. 56 still on books …

    AL.com https://www.al.com › hb_56_alabamas_2011_anti-immig
    Mar 24, 2017 — The 2011 state law described at the time as the harshest anti-immigration law in the nation has been overturned by the courts and is no longer enforceable.

    Most of the bill was unconstitutional and not enforceable.
    By the time the courts ruled, Alabama wasn’t all that interested in enforcing it anyway.

  6. Dunc says

    @ #4: It’s not just AirB&Bs, there’s a huge amount of activity from Private Equity landlords buying up single family homes to rent out long-term too – both existing homes and new build-to-rent properties.

  7. Akira MacKenzie says

    Doesn’t matter. The media has dubbed Vance the winner while “Coach” looked nebbish and accommodating.

    Trump will win. Doesn’t matter if Harris wins the popular vote, his army of loyal election officials and the SCOTUS will give him the presidency. Then the Dems, who worship the system and the process, will hand power to a murderous fascist because that’s what the rule say and we must always obey the rules. “We can only hope that the people vote him out next election,” they’ll say.

    When Trumps wins, there aren’t going to be any more elections.

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