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The Great Replacement Chronicles: Britain’s $45 Trillion Tab

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Indian celebrity migrant: UK the 'most evil' nation in history, owes $43 trillion to India

“British” actress Jameela Jamil, of Pakistani-Indian descent, appeared recently on the Yestergays podcast, in which she smeared the British as “truly the most evil people in history,” likening them to Thanos and claiming “they owe $43 trillion to India” for some alleged past crimes. (LANGUAGE WARNING.)

(As one commenter noted, the use of the term “they” to refer to the British is actually quite revealing here, in that she herself doesn’t identify as British. I don’t identify her as such, either, and neither should you.)

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I was curious whether Jameela simply pulled the $43 trillion figure out of her pampered behind, so I did a little digging.

It turns out, an Indian “academic” actually conducted an exhaustive forensic analysis of colonial India’s finances up until 1938 and concluded that Britain had “stolen” not $43 trillion, as Jameela cited, but $45 trillion due primarily to tax revenue collected from the country over centuries.

Via Hindustan Times (emphasis added):

After decades of research I find that using India’s commodity export surplus as the measure and applying an interest rate of 5%, the total drain from 1765 to 1938, compounded up to 2016, comes to £9.2 trillion; since $4.86 exchanged for £1 those days, this sum equals about $45 trillion.

The exact mechanism of drain, or transfers from India to Britain was quite simple. The key factor was Britain’s control over our taxation revenues combined with control over India’s financial gold and forex earnings from its booming commodity export surplus with the world. Simply put, Britain used locally raised rupee tax revenues to pay for its net import of goods, a highly abnormal use of budgetary funds not seen in any sovereign country.

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Study: Disproportionate percentage of immigrants sucking up welfare bucks

Evil, thieving America, which also probably owes India money for some obscure reason, according to the following report from the Center for Immigration Studies, doles out welfare benefits to immigrants — particularly non-citizen green card holders and illegal ones as opposed to naturalized citizens — at higher rates than it provides them to actual American citizens.

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Via Center for Immigration Studies (emphasis added):

This analysis follows the Census Bureau’s standard definition of welfare and reports use of means-tested anti-poverty programs by households headed by immigrants and the U.S.-born. We exclude social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare, which individuals pay in to and are not means-tested. The findings show that households headed by immigrants, also called the “foreign-born”, are significantly more likely to receive benefits than households headed by the U.S.-born. The ability of low-income immigrants, including illegal immigrants, to receive benefits on behalf of U.S.-born citizen children is a key reason restrictions on welfare use for new legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants, are relatively ineffective. If we want immigrants to use less welfare in the future, then reducing illegal immigration and changing the selection criteria for legal immigrants to emphasize skills should be considered.

Among the findings:

  • The 2024 SIPP indicates that 53 percent of households headed by immigrants — naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants — used one or more major welfare programs. This compares to 37 percent for U.S.-born households.
  • The rate is 59 percent for non-citizen households (e.g. green card holders and illegal immigrants).
  • Compared to households headed by the U.S.-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (35 percent vs. 22 percent for the U.S.-born), Medicaid (39 percent vs. 27 percent for the U.S.-born), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (15 percent vs. 10 percent for the U.S.-born).
  • Our best estimate is that 51 percent of households headed by legal immigrants use at least one major welfare program. Among illegal immigrants, also called the undocumented, we estimate the rate is 61 percent. We have no evidence that this is due to fraud.

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