Comments on: Increase Immigration to Shrink the Size of Government http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/03/31/increase-immigration-to-shrink-the-size-of-government.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: purpleslog http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/03/31/increase-immigration-to-shrink-the-size-of-government.html/comment-page-1#comment-13865 purpleslog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/03/31/increase-immigration-to-shrink-the-size-of-government.html#comment-13865 <p>"Simply embracing sustained immigration leads to smaller government and more freedom".<br /> <br /> I don't think there is really a proof of this. The US is a sample size of 1.<br /> <br /> Europe has ben having lots of immigration (mostly from the Arab/Muslim world) for the past 30y ears. I don't see it as more free or with shrinking governments.<br /> <br /> But that is just a sample size now of 2.</p> “Simply embracing sustained immigration leads to smaller government and more freedom”.

I don't think there is really a proof of this. The US is a sample size of 1.

Europe has ben having lots of immigration (mostly from the Arab/Muslim world) for the past 30y ears. I don't see it as more free or with shrinking governments.

But that is just a sample size now of 2.

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/03/31/increase-immigration-to-shrink-the-size-of-government.html/comment-page-1#comment-13866 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/03/31/increase-immigration-to-shrink-the-size-of-government.html#comment-13866 <p>Purpleslog,<br /> <br /> I caught your tdaxp-y posts [1] [2]. Thanks!!<br /> <br /> My February 2005 post was inspired by an Economist article from that time, which found the same thing happening throughout Europe. Not only were the least diverse European societies the most pro-big-government (Sweden, Finland, etc), but public happiness with that policy fell as immigration levels increased. <br /> <br /> People are naturally inclined to help those more like themselves, and less likely to help the more different. This is what Krugman is noticing.<br /> <br /> The united States are a sample size fifty, and we see the same pattern (made most famous by the Minnesotan Swedish Socialist Republic's republican revolution the wave of diversity) as with the EU (sample size twenty-five).<br /> <br /> [1] <a href="http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/tdaxp-on-the-fairtax/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/tdaxp-on-the-fairtax/</a><br /> [2] <a href="http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/thought-experiment-in-4gw5gw-the-takedown-of-sam-adams-and-john-hancock/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/thought-experiment-in-4gw5gw-the-takedown-of-sam-adams-and-john-hancock/</a></p> Purpleslog,

I caught your tdaxp-y posts [1] [2]. Thanks!!

My February 2005 post was inspired by an Economist article from that time, which found the same thing happening throughout Europe. Not only were the least diverse European societies the most pro-big-government (Sweden, Finland, etc), but public happiness with that policy fell as immigration levels increased.

People are naturally inclined to help those more like themselves, and less likely to help the more different. This is what Krugman is noticing.

The united States are a sample size fifty, and we see the same pattern (made most famous by the Minnesotan Swedish Socialist Republic's republican revolution the wave of diversity) as with the EU (sample size twenty-five).

[1] http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/tdaxp-on-the-fairtax/
[2] http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/thought-experiment-in-4gw5gw-the-takedown-of-sam-adams-and-john-hancock/

]]> By: Michael http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/03/31/increase-immigration-to-shrink-the-size-of-government.html/comment-page-1#comment-13867 Michael Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/03/31/increase-immigration-to-shrink-the-size-of-government.html#comment-13867 <p>Is the relationship between diversity and government size a matter of generosity or agreement? Think of government as a means for people to cooperate on projects of benefit. A homogeneous people can have a great deal of agreement on what needs to be done and set up their government to get it done. A diverse people, however, will probably have a harder time deciding what needs to be done, so relatively few projects will have enough support to be started by the government.</p> Is the relationship between diversity and government size a matter of generosity or agreement? Think of government as a means for people to cooperate on projects of benefit. A homogeneous people can have a great deal of agreement on what needs to be done and set up their government to get it done. A diverse people, however, will probably have a harder time deciding what needs to be done, so relatively few projects will have enough support to be started by the government.

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