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Re:Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hirin... by User23 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:30PM (#17823522)
Maybe that’s true. Or maybe the arrow of causality runs the other way and increased labor supply and housing demand due to mass immigration of foreign labor drives down wages and drives up housing costs, thereby reducing native fertility rates.

Edit: I wonder to what extent the US current account deficit is funding west coast real estate valuations. I know Chinese cash buyers were a big part of the Vancouver price increases.

Re:Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hirin... by redahs on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @09:19PM (#17823755)
The United States is not currently experiencing mass immigration. Its total annual population growth rate including immigration is lower than 1% and has not been this low since the Great Depression. The United States is a relatively lightly populated country per unit of total land area, and many cities in the interior of the country are declining in population despite immigration.

Housing prices are inversely correlated with the property tax rate on real estate and the income tax rate on capital gains. A decline in either real estate property taxes or capital gain income taxes increases housing prices, by making land more attractive as an investment. This effect is independent of the population of the country. If it becomes more attractive to put money into land rather than in businesses which employ workers, and changes to the tax code cause an increase in land banking, then the price of land increases faster than wages and salaries used to buy it regardless of the level of population of the country.

Taxing earned income of younger families via payroll taxes at a much higher rate than unearned increment of land via property taxes and capital gains taxes is basically a very slow moving form of national suicide.

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Re:Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hirin... by chasontherobot on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:43AM (#17824645)
"American" is not a race, what do you mean by that?
Re:Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hirin... by User23 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:13AM (#17824777)
American is a nationality that has roots going back centuries. They are one of the youngest ethnic groups on the planet, having just recently branched off from the English, but they have their own dialects, cuisine, music, and all the other cultural traits.