In a recent post, I mentioned the CBO’s estimate that the Senate immigration bill would cause our per capita GNP in 20 years to be 0.2 percent higher than it would otherwise be. In a follow-up post, Andrew Biggs points out that CBO has estimated that other policies would do a lot more to expand the economy. Raising retirement ages for Medicare and Social Security would yield ten times more increased economic output.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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