High immigration hurts state budgets

The Age has chosen one of the dumbest angles to go with regarding the Albanese government’s ‘smoke and mirrors’ migration reforms: that they would harm Victoria’s budget:

“A federal push to slash the annual migration intake could have significant ramifications for the Victorian economy, which has for more than a decade been powered by booming population growth fuelled by overseas migration”, the article reads.

“Victoria’s precarious budget forecasts – built on the assumption that the state’s population would swell by almost half-a-million people over the next four years – could be derailed if the plan goes ahead”.