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The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs, including Obamacare, four sources with knowledge of the plan told NBC News.
The move, which would not need congressional approval, is part of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller's plan to limit the number of migrants who obtain legal status in the U.S. each year.
[...] Though its effects could be far-reaching, the proposal to limit citizenship to immigrants who have not used public assistance does not appear to need congressional approval. As the Clinton administration did in 1999, the Trump administration would be redefining the term "public charge," which first emerged in immigration law in the 1800s in order to shield the U.S. from burdening too many immigrants who could not contribute to society.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday August 17 2018, @11:09AM
Economics is more complicated than that. If the US gov spends $20B internally on maintaining nukes, that money goes somewhere. Nuke techs get to keep their jobs and pay taxes, companies that contract some of the services stay in business employing people.
I'm pretty sure that looking after their nukes is one of things that the USA won't outsource to China or India, so that $20B goes straight back into the domestic economy, and is probably mostly reclaimed through taxes and an improved economy.
And before you start claiming 'broken window fallacy', I know that maintaining nukes is a net negative, those factors are ameliorative. The true expense would still be much less than $20B.
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.