Bryan Caplan - along with TCS/Insty fave Arnold Kling - is one of the contributors to "EconLog", a libertarian/"free" market-oriented site that, like other libertarians, can't seem to understand how massive illegal immigration violates the supposed libertarian support for national defense and their supposed opposition to subsidies.
In his latest post, Caplan has - according to this - descended into self-parody, and I concur. While not specifically concerning the illegal variety of immigration, he supports immigration from Cambodia... because Cambodians are good at making fresh donuts:
...In L.A., independent shops with fresh doughnuts are the rule. What gives? ...After learning a bit about the industry, I advanced a simple explanation: Los Angeles has Cambodian immigrants to thank for its happy situation.
Thankfully, commenter "superdestroyer" provides some counterpoint to Caplan's starry-eyed blather. And, I join in with a link to my Jobs for South Asia satire.
If Caplan would like to be taken seriously, he might consider approaching some of the downsides of what he's promoting in a future post.
Immigration · Thu, 12/21/2006 - 16:36 · · Importance: 1
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Comments
Doughnut shops are largely cash businesses. Family members work there, and there is lots of room to hide cash receipts. Of course, we can't mention this, because that would be racist! Only Americans run cash businesses, evade taxes, and use their kids as free labor.
And our local Cambodian doughnut maker lets flies walk all over his inventory. Eeuw.
Posted by: Pat at Dec 22, 2006 6:41 PM
Lawrence Auster and Randall Parker ask: what does Bush realy mean when he says "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande" ?
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/006777.html
Randall Parker highlights Heather Mac Donald
Posted by: perroazul del norte at Dec 22, 2006 9:01 AM
It is also a stereotyped response; as if to say without mass immigration of undesirables, they won't let anyone eat in NY, or LA.
They've had many requests to say why mass immigration on to net public subsidy is justifiable; but always find it more convenient to avoid such questions, and stick to something as banal as tastes in doughnuts.
Posted by: John S Bolton at Dec 22, 2006 2:38 AM