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May 30, 2013

Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare

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A new study reveals that immigrants’ contributions to Medicare generated a $115 billion surplus from 2002 to 2009. I am glad to see a study was at last accomplished to demonstrate what common sense should already have postulated. If you know a) most immigrants are young & healthy enough to do labor and b) illegal immigrants cannot benefit from the funds they have paid into social security or medicare, then why would you conclude they are a drain on social programs rather than a boon?
See on www.salon.com

Harvard 1, Strawman 0 (justoneminute.typepad.com)
For Medicare, Immigrants Offer Surplus, Study Finds (khou.com)
Entitlement growth is boon to seniors (kypost.com)
‘The Left-Right Divide in U.S. Politics’ (economistsview.typepad.com)
Obama’s Neoliberal Budget (veteranstoday.com)
What the Immigration Debate Really Should Be About (theoccidentalobserver.net)

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Keith “Maggie” Brown

I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.

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Tags: $115 billion, Democratic Party, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Health care, illegal aliens, immigrants, immigration, medicare, National Institutes of Health, New York Times, Political Gnosticism, republicans, social benefits, social security, Social Security Administration, United States, welfare

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