>>13722292DESTASIS can measure it because people only recieve welfare in Germany after their savings are depleted, they are further required to report remittance transfers to the third world. In this way spending inside of Germany can be tracked.
>>13722293Ok, so in most countries staple foods are duty free or they are less than 1% of the economy (agriculture is a negligible economic sector in most countries). People on welfare don't buy much else. A healthy domestic consumer market like America has relies on people buying _luxury_ goods like cars, computers, tvs, private washing machines etc.
In addition to this, due to remittance payments to the third world, trillions of dollars that would otherwise have been in circulation in Western countries are lost.
>>1372230270% of second generation immigrants are unemployed. I know that asshole employers love to brag about how much they can abuse illegal/immigrant workers/neocolonial slave, but what you aren't considering is that it is not sustainable because after a certain amount of year those people get PR and can be dumped on the tax payer for the rest of their lives.
It would be better to let those industries die off completely and transition to a high tech economy like Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria etc. Has.