Talk about immigration and the fair tax.(Letter to the editor)

I am troubled by two recent articles in THE NEW AMERICAN. First is the March 3, 2008 Warren Mass piece "Immigration as a Win-win Affair." Do we really need another lecture on the benefits of immigration to America over the centuries? I don't. My father was an immigrant. He came to North Dakota as a child as part of my grandparents' family. In those times immigrants were not a burden on society. They came only for the opportunities offered for freedom and success through hard work.

The cheap-labor and alien-advocacy lobbies use past immigration as justification for more of the same. But the need for, and desirability of, immigration diminishes as nations mature and space and infrastructure become problems. Proving that past immigration was desirable does not make a good argument for continuing immigration, at least not on a massive scale and certainly not when it enters the country illegally.

My second example is Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr.'s "The Great Tax Myth" (April 14, 2008). I read in disbelief that Mr. Rockwell, a Libertarian, could be so fatalistic about taxation, i.e., it doesn't matter how you do it--a tax is a tax.