Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Atlas shrugged

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:

> Also, many immigrants pay into social security without being able to
> collect.  Has anybody ever tried to quantify that effect?

The SS Trustees reports use immigrants as one of the demographic
variables, with higher levels of immigration meaning more solvency
for the system. They aren't so crude to point out that they don't
collect, however; it's just that they're younger, and increase the
ratio of contributors to pensioners.

Doug