Well, some of government spending is in the form of debt. It is not sustainable to keep growing it - so we see what is happening now. More taxes...
Of course - look at my recent posts. Per capita GDP growth has slumped over the 15 years of high immigration, as has wages growth and productivity...
A corelation is just a comparison of the two sets of data. The article goes into considerable detail as to causation - who are you trying to fool?
The thinktank e61 found a causal relationship: Think Tank: Mass immigration wrecking Australia's productivity - MacroBusiness
It's not all about you personally, it is the aggregate effect that is the concern. You can hardly say the 15 years of hyper immigration since 2006...
Well, there is a causal relationship. Businesses are less included to innovate and boost productivity if they can take the lazy route and use...
Ironically much of the baby boomer bulge in the result of past waves of immigration. In any case the over 65's are the richest cohort and many can...
The Australian median age is 37, so most have been here paying taxes for decades. And you don't seem to understand the effects of population...
" If majority of wages go down as you suggest then borrowing capacities for most are lowered resulting in prices for the avg property to go down....
Not really, people are just borrowing more and there are plenty of wealthy immigrants and foreign buyers to push house prices up. And productivity...
Well it's pretty obvious. They use our infrastructure as soon as they step off the plane and they haven't been here decades paying taxes.
Isn't the government looking at cutting back on infrastructure spending? How do you think that will work out with a ballooning population?
{Note from mods - this thread split from here: VIC government debt - a ticking timebomb? [VIC]} The suburban rail loop has been voted in at...
'Uncompetitive' means being undercut with regards to wages and conditions. Then we get the double whammy with high housing costs. It's not being...
You left out the 16,000 - 18,000 refugees given permanent places, and that temporary migration ramped up. I think it was 160,000 (permanent...
Canada only has a population of 39 million. The US is far more fertile than Australia and with more abundant freshwater. You were comparing us to...
The Macrobusiness article merely quotes another article with a unaffiliated author in case you didn't notice. So it is pointless shooting the...
Irrelevant/ misleading that other countries have higher population. We are the only continent not overpopulated and we still have a good bit of...
Lower the permanent stream and there will be less dependents. And elderly parents would cost the country more than 50K each (burden on the health...
They don't have a money tree. It either means more taxes or it doesn't get built - and that means a low standard of living/ quality of life with a...
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