Are Illegal Immigrants Hurting the US Economy? 3 Facts that may Surprise You

Subsidization- What the Left believes: Subsidization is a viable way to encourage desired economic activity. Alternative energies, organic foods, and anything that is good for people should be subsidized. The Truth is: The subsidization of a product’s or service’s cost by the government is a way to encourage certain activity. However, subsidies have adverse effects….

Immigration What the Right believes: Immigrants take away American jobs. Illegal immigrants suppress wages of American workers. Illegals suck up our social welfare dollars and are a drain on our economy. The Truth is: Immigration is beneficial to the economy, and our economy is dependent on the labor of illegal immigrants. Due to their cheap…

At the beginning of the Cold War, George Kennan introduced the idea of “containing” an unfriendly state as part of  his work on U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. Later the idea of containment was implemented in part through the use of economic sanctions. It was based on two assumptions: For both ideological and geopolitical…

“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”–Ayn Rand Money is a medium which facilitates trade, representing a value based on productive labor. It is not greed embodied, nor is it a source of evil. Avarice, greed, and gluttony are what people are truly lamenting when…