"The main victims of the externalities, then, are property owners. Living right next to an airport typically depresses their property values by 5-15%, a major hit to their net worth."
This is only true for folks who bought before news of an airport in the vicinity, no?
Again -- zero mention of the welfare state enticing immigrants who only want the free room and board, medical care, schooling, and everything else that bums want; add to that ignoring their past criminal records, forgiving their new crimes "because they don't know the customs", and all the rest of it, including billions of dollars in fraud, licensed drivers who can't read or speak the language. Then there are the refugees flown in whose only desire was avoiding war, famine, and refugee camp squalor, and have zero interest in, and appreciation of, the new society they end up in, and in fact do everything they can to tear it down.
I do not believe this was a problem before roughly 1920, when there were no welfare benefits, no state sponsored refugees who hated their new location and society, and the new immigrants wanted to assimilate, wanted to fit in, and expected to have to work for a living without government handouts.
Stop coddling immigrants, stop flying in ungrateful refugees, deport the criminals, and bar them from all welfare until they become citizens. Then people might accept them as people who have earned a chance.
Lived under DFW Airport Ordinance and I knew where I wanted to live after reading it, and lived in the landing flight paths. No noise from takeoff and I couldn’t have big mirrors for bird reasons. Way more concerned about the impact of P3 and that PE piece getting resold to hostile nations. After all P3 started in airports. From a flow of funds perspective, it makes sense as most airports have both taxable and tax-exempt revenue streams.
I think we need to differentiate between different immigration streams:
1. High skilled, temporary
2. High skilled, permanent
3. Low skilled, temporary
4. Low skilled, permanent
5. Refugees
6. Illegal immigrants
Then calculate net externalities for each, instead of clumping everything together, over a 50 year time horizon to ensure we also calculate the costs of immigrants receiving Medicare and Social Security. Did anyone ever try to do this?
"The main victims of the externalities, then, are property owners. Living right next to an airport typically depresses their property values by 5-15%, a major hit to their net worth."
This is only true for folks who bought before news of an airport in the vicinity, no?
Again -- zero mention of the welfare state enticing immigrants who only want the free room and board, medical care, schooling, and everything else that bums want; add to that ignoring their past criminal records, forgiving their new crimes "because they don't know the customs", and all the rest of it, including billions of dollars in fraud, licensed drivers who can't read or speak the language. Then there are the refugees flown in whose only desire was avoiding war, famine, and refugee camp squalor, and have zero interest in, and appreciation of, the new society they end up in, and in fact do everything they can to tear it down.
I do not believe this was a problem before roughly 1920, when there were no welfare benefits, no state sponsored refugees who hated their new location and society, and the new immigrants wanted to assimilate, wanted to fit in, and expected to have to work for a living without government handouts.
Stop coddling immigrants, stop flying in ungrateful refugees, deport the criminals, and bar them from all welfare until they become citizens. Then people might accept them as people who have earned a chance.
Lived under DFW Airport Ordinance and I knew where I wanted to live after reading it, and lived in the landing flight paths. No noise from takeoff and I couldn’t have big mirrors for bird reasons. Way more concerned about the impact of P3 and that PE piece getting resold to hostile nations. After all P3 started in airports. From a flow of funds perspective, it makes sense as most airports have both taxable and tax-exempt revenue streams.
Do you think that recent events in Ceuta validate your hypothesis?
I think we need to differentiate between different immigration streams:
1. High skilled, temporary
2. High skilled, permanent
3. Low skilled, temporary
4. Low skilled, permanent
5. Refugees
6. Illegal immigrants
Then calculate net externalities for each, instead of clumping everything together, over a 50 year time horizon to ensure we also calculate the costs of immigrants receiving Medicare and Social Security. Did anyone ever try to do this?