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Lars Aanning's avatar

Help me understand why there is a race to expand the city, increase its population, and build more of everything?

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John Kelley's avatar

It's very temporary. Here's the US population projection for the next 75 years based on different immigration scenarios that explodes Republican's heads.

https://www.brookings.edu/interactive/figure-1-projected-annual-us-population-size-2022-2100/?r=1748841&b=1

Reducing immigration leads to wage inflation, fewer customers, lower tax bases.

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