But migrants as a whole, in the long term and counting the contribution of their children when they grow up and get jobs, are not a drain on public services.
The Northumberland service said false alarms were a "drain on the public purse".
Even then, interest-rate subsidies make their loans a drain on the public finances.
He has done research at the Harvard School of Public Health on the brain drain of doctors out of India.
One big reason chiefs are fleeing boards is that serving on a public board is a huge drain on time.
Although charter schools claim to improve learning outcomes, studies have shown uneven results, even as the schools drain money from public schools.
To be sure, unions have long pretended to oppose vouchers not because they are afraid of competition but because vouchers drain resources from public school children.
Inefficiency and corruption in the justice system must be tackled urgently, not least because huge and often unjustified claims for damages are an enormous drain on the public purse.
Four years ago, his support for school vouchers frightened voters, who suspected a right-wing plot to drain money from the public schools.
Roger Williams, MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, said local pay would leave parts of the UK with the prospect of a talent drain as the "best public sector workers leave for richer pastures".
More intriguingly, people worry about the drain that big projects have put on public finances.
Several public officials had said holding the race Sunday could drain resources from the city's recovery efforts.
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Perhaps the end of the Olympic drain on National Lottery funding will return to public projects elsewhere.
It matters not one jot how many public sector jobs are added for they equate to a net drain on the economy.
In the wake of the events in Egypt, the government raised heating oil allowances for public sector workers after an earlier plan to withdraw subsidies that drain the national budget.
In a "grantor trust, " for example, the tax is paid by the person who sets up the trust, so it doesn't drain assets from the trust itself, says Alan Kufeld, a certified public accountant at Rothstein Kass's family-office group.
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