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<FONT FACE="Palatino"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>Jobs often follow the people. That is one reason new immigrants are so importatnt to growing economies. Actually there is no formula. There is an interaction between immigration and economy. They influence each other, but neither rules. So saying you welcome 75,000 only if they have jobs, is a paradox, as the fact of people coming creates many of the jobs they will fill. <BR>
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Clearly residents of Summit, like all of the US, do not really understand immigration and its role in economies. It is very clear the Republican party neither understands, or wants to. And the idiocies the Republicans put out make it harder for the American peoplel to see clearly. Note, Democratic Party is not really any better at this one. Greg gerritt<BR>
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on 10/1/11 1:21 PM, Emlyn Addison at noisyblocks@gmail.com wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Palatino"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>75,000 people would also increase the tax base. And the marginal cost of supplying water, power, trash removal etc to those people, IF they settle in already-developed areas like NMS, is not high. Plus, how could storefronts be empty on Hope Street if that many more people needed pizza, clothes, coffee, etc?<BR>
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Only IF they have jobs. See earlier posts on this topic.<BR>
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