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Originally Posted by Aylmer
No one is a lifelong taxpayer. Before any of us got our first T4, we were children. Economically, we were contributing nothing, earning nothing and costing society dearly in free healthcare, free dental care, free education and subsidized activities for the better part of 16-20 years.
Someone who immigrates here is a fiscal gift - already educated and raised on a different government's dime, and ready to get to work and pay taxes here. If they require a few months or years of assistance, it still works out in our fiscal favour.
It's important for us all remember that any of us born here were ungrateful freeloaders for about two decades before becoming "lifelong taxpayers".
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Except for when they bring their dependents, and declare zero income. Canada is (relatively-speaking) getting a better deal with immigration than any country despite widespread abuse of the system, but what i'm more interested in is the fact that even if we manage to close off all the loopholes and really only let in the best-of-the-best, certain SSPers will still object to all this money pouring into the economy and will want to limit the number of newcomers.
Deep down it's rooted in the mentality that Canada should remain white-majority, just like African countries are black, etc, rather than be based on the ideal of shared values.