Research
from UCL shows that EU migrants contribute 34% more in taxes than they cost in
benefits. But ....
This research doesn’t take into account the cost of schools,
hospitals, policing and other public services.
With 2.3 million unemployed, British citizens would be doing these
jobs anyway and bringing this money in.
British citizens are out of work as a result, and that costs us
money.
But the
claim is disingenuous anyway. If we had
two people come into the country, one bringing a skill to earn £50,000 a year
and another claiming benefits, the country might well be ‘better off’ having
both than having neither. But we’d do
better still to just have the skilled worker without the drain on our
finances.
