New Imigration Reform

[Jester]

But not all of it to that specific community - only a small portion of it does. 99.99% of it comes back to other similar communites. However, the reason for why demand for the goods produced by the community exists, is because there's more then one Wal-Mart in the world.

You're looking at things on a different level of scale then I. Of course the money goes back into the economy - the difference is, most if it goes into other communities' economies.

THE reason for why it's a bad idea to discourage foreign investment, unless you have a high unemployment rate, is because everybody else is going to hate you for it.

It makes no sense to consider the money going out from one specific community to every other community without also considering the money going the other way, no matter what scale you're looking at. Money from those other communities flows back (on average) to the first community as much as it goes the other way.

Discouraging trade is a bad idea, all other things being equal. On any but the shortest time scales, it hurts employment, investment, wealth, and just about everything else.

-Jester