Report: Sweden has earned 900 billion in immigration – Aftonbladet

Immigration gives Sweden 65 extra tax billion – a year.

It shows a new report from the think tank Arena idea, Dagens Nyheter reports.

– This means that the Sweden Democrats’ idea of ​​funding the defense spending or saving the elderly by reducing immigration is simply not true, says chief economist Sandro Scocco to the newspaper.

Without immigration, Sweden had had worse railways, less defense and research of lower quality.

It claims the think tank Arena idea. The organization’s chief economist Sandro Scocco and Associate Professor Lars Fredrik Andersson calculated on immigration charges and income.

900 billion in profits

The conclusion: Since 1950, immigration has given a profit totaling 900 billion.

According to the report, DN reports and presented in Almedalen today, Sweden had been 2.5 million fewer people without immigration.

More working

Immigration was more profitable in the 1960s and 70s. It still gets a positive result depends on among the foreign-born are less mature and more of working age than in the group born in Sweden.

– Simplified, one can say that immigration is historically mainly paid joint investments in defense, infrastructure and basic research, says Sandro Scocco to DN.