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They also seem to ignore that those millions of regular immigrants are paying billions in taxes
And how much do they cost us? When people immigrate, they are a short-term cost to the country (as all migrants are). Question is: do they make us money in the long term. For many countries, the answer is no: "The Long-Term Fiscal Impact of Immigrants in the Netherlands, Differentiated by Motive, Source Region and Generation"
How many houses do they take in (there's a 400k houses short in the Netherlands, for example; we build 70k houses a year, but take in 100k migrants (300k in - 200k out = 100k net growth) plus another 100k babies that are born. Where is everybody supposed to live?
Then there's the nitrous-crisis that we're dealing with, which means we CAN'T just "build more houses", and those that are being built can't connect to the electricity grid, because there's a waiting list because the VVD decided back in 2008 that investing in our grid for the future wasn't of their concern...
Fuck mass migration, and fuck you for only seeing people as economic units. I'm fucking pissed.
I mean, you were a drain on your country's education money, but you're still allowed to live there, so why shouldn't they be able to?
And arguably, the fertility rate (which is around 1.43) of the Netherlands means that there wouldn't really be a need to continue to keep making houses. You can just wait for the population to decline! Like, factoring in the babies (who, uh, don't typically need their own houses), you would need to take in... Well, yeah, around 100k immigrants yearly to maintain a constant population (need to have that replacement rate be around 1.05ish), so it sounds like there isn't really a problem, but I also haven't really factored in that you might just be a racist.
Instead, you, as a native, purebred Dutch, you were born and immediately as a toddler you started to work and pay taxes, you wasn't a burden on the education and health system for 20 years.