Opinion | Evan Horowitz: President Trump's immigration crackdown will hurt his working-class base. - NBCNewsTHINK
In addition, there are several million unauthorized immigrants who pay federal taxes every year — including payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare — despite the fact that they are not eligible to ever receive these benefits. And while taking money from unauthorized immigrants who will never enjoy the government benefit they’re funding may be troubling from a tax fairness perspective, there’s no denying the positive impact on Social Security’s accounting.
This is just one example of how increased immigration could help compensate for the problems of America's slow-growing population. Consider that an ebbing population also means a slow-growing workforce. In fact, the only reason the working age population is expected to grow at all is because of new immigrants, according to. Otherwise, the total number of 25- to 64-year-olds in the United States in 2035 will be 18 million lower than the number in 2015. That shortfall means the remaining workers will either have to work harder, longer or more productively simply to prevent the economy from shrinking.
Now it’s true there may be some other, nonimmigration-related fixes to this problem, including automation.as a country that has embraced automation in response to workforce winnowing. And perhaps the workforce of the future won’t need to be so large, if machines take over more and more jobs — including the kinds of low-skill jobs often performed by immigrants. But it’s important not to be too halcyon here.
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