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It’s the Numbers Stupid!

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In 1992, Candidate Bill Clinton’s election campaign manager is said to have tacked a paper to the
bulletin board with the slogan: “It’s the economy, stupid!” I will borrow that blunt but effective message for this paper. From coast to coast, crowding has become a central issue at the local level, but — almost universally — the issue is argued without any recognition of the force that drives it: national population growth, which in turn is driven by immigration and by the high fertility of many of the immigrants. Only Congress can get at the fundamental cause of the crowding. The unhappy victims of crowding should direct their fire, not at their neighbors but at Congress.

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