That’s what certain Beltway “Libertarians,” who have recently named themselves after a popular martini (“cosmopolitans”), would call Nobel laureate economists Militon Friedman and Gary Becker, along with Thomas Sowell, because of their (the economists’) views on immigration policy. If they were consistent, that is.

That’s how they have hysterically reacted to a few people associated with this Web site who have expressed reservations about the combination of open borders and a giant welfare state. But Friedman unequivocally believed the two were incompatible; Becker has suggested imposing a $50,000 entrance fee for immigrants; and Sowell has called immigration “potentially dangerous” to the entire society.

I suspect one reason for the hysterically slanderous name calling for some, but not for these three scholars who make identical arguments, is that none of them was or is involved in running a think tank or academic organization that competes with any Inside-the-Beltway think tank.

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