MAC report / The fiscal case for mass migration is being demolished |
Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention.
Many people can’t have read it, because it is full of incendiary details which demolish the case for mass migration. The MAC is ‘an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office’. It is not a political body, and its board is comprised of sober, sensible academics, who have set out to model ‘net fiscal impact’ – the costs, or benefits to the taxpayer of different kinds of migration. It’s worth noting that they do not seek to model second- or third-order costs of migration, such as housing costs, crime or long-term suppression of wages and birth rates.
For decades we have imported people who will be a net drain on taxpayers, because we arbitrarily decided to ignore what happens after they’ve been here for five years
On asylum, the MAC are absolutely clear, stating that they ‘expect the net fiscal impact of those entering through asylum and refugee routes to be unambiguously negative’. The academics explain this is because asylum seekers have ‘low employment rates and wages, high rates of economic inactivity’ and because they are able to claim........