It gets passed to the black market, where thugs rule and profits skyrocket. Prohibition thus increases violence, corrupts children by the lure of lucre and destroys neighborhoods. The drug problem was born with drug control. It was inflated to crisis proportions when the federal government declared outright war in the 1960s. The case against immigration is riddled with holes.
Immigration replenishes the nation's entrepreneurial energies.
It also expands the labor pool for small business. Success magazine, June 1996. Congressional Republicans correctly diagnosed the problems with today's failed welfare state, but they lacked the courage to make the really difficult choices needed to cure this disease. At the heart of the new welfare reform is block grants. One may question the logic of sending money from the states to Washington, having Washington take a cut from the top, then sending the money back to the states.