You can if the other 20 million pay more in taxes than the 30 million use on net—especially if the whole 50 million then have citizen kids that are net fiscally positive (and who would presumably not be counted as “non-citizen households” in these statistics). The balance here is a quantitative problem that Caplan and Weinersmith try to estimate in their book.
You can if the other 20 million pay more in taxes than the 30 million use on net—especially if the whole 50 million then have citizen kids that are net fiscally positive (and who would presumably not be counted as “non-citizen households” in these statistics). The balance here is a quantitative problem that Caplan and Weinersmith try to estimate in their book.