11 Million Illegals Pay $11.6 Billion in Taxes so - We're All Good, Right?
Last month the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released a report stating as fact each of the 11 million illegals the Obama Administration says is in the US pays, on average, $1,050 in income, excise and sales taxes each year so, (in a paragraph spilling over with moralisms and shaming) they're a net positive to the economy. Shazam! (as Gomer used to say).
National Public Radio says on average we spend $10,615 per year educating each public school student. The PEW Center says 6.9% of all K-12 public school students are children of illegal aliens. The Department of Education says there are 50.1 million K-12 public school students.
Blue Cross says the average emergency room visit costs $1,233. How many illegal aliens visit emergency rooms each year? We don't know because the Administration won't tell us however, the American College of Emergency Room Physicians unwittingly or, perhaps wittingly told us: "Many hospitals are concerned that the U.S. government will cut money — about $20 billion annually — used to pay for emergency care for undocumented immigrants — mostly in poor urban and rural areas. The health care law will eventually cut that money by half because of the anticipation that fewer people will lack insurance after the law is implemented. " http://newsroom.acep.org/fact_sheets?...
The Vera Institute says the average (39 state) annual cost of incarcerating a prisoner is $31,286 and, while the Department of Homeland Security hasn't made illegal alien prisoner statistics available for most of the current Administration's tenure, in 2010 the DHS said the average illegal alien population in State and County prisons and jails exceeded 300,000 and, exceeded 73,000 in Federal prisons. (Estimates from Bush Administration years had the illegal alien prisoner population as much as 100,000 higher.)
Multiply the number of children of illegal aliens in the public schools (3,457,000) by the average cost per student ($10,615) and you get $36.7 billion.
Multiply the minimum number of illegal aliens in prison (373,000) by the average annual cost ($31,286) and you get $11.7 billion.
Accept the ACERP estimate of Federal payouts for emergency room care (not state or local or uncompensated care) for illegal aliens and you get at least $20 billion.
Add together just these three ways in which illegal aliens burden us and you get a total of $68.4 billion.
So, per head, illegal aliens pay us $1,050 in all forms of Federal, state and local income, excise and sales taxes of all kinds and in return we pay $6,218 in costs for each of them.
Each illegal cost us almost 6 times as much as they pay in taxes. And you wondered why border states were so upset about illegal immigration and, in case you wondered why immigration produced such a boost for Trump, now you know. These are things to which common people are exposed and of which they're aware. When the Oklahoma Legislature passed the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act in 2007, making it a crime to employ or offer housing to illegal aliens, several schools in the Tulsa Public School system lost over 48% of their students. The city promptly declared itself a sanctuary city and they all came back. 48% of Tulsa's school taxes are being absorbed by the children of illegal aliens. Oklahoma's public schools rank 49th out of 50 in student performance and Tulsa's public schools rank lowest in the state. Do you imagine the flood of illegal immigrants that has poured into Tulsa in the past decade hasn't hurt the education received by the children of legal, taxpaying citizens?
I realize many of you are philosophically no-borders people but, unless you're complete fools you also realize Ayn Rand expected people to pull their weight so, in our less than ideal world, no-borders can't work.
National Public Radio says on average we spend $10,615 per year educating each public school student. The PEW Center says 6.9% of all K-12 public school students are children of illegal aliens. The Department of Education says there are 50.1 million K-12 public school students.
Blue Cross says the average emergency room visit costs $1,233. How many illegal aliens visit emergency rooms each year? We don't know because the Administration won't tell us however, the American College of Emergency Room Physicians unwittingly or, perhaps wittingly told us: "Many hospitals are concerned that the U.S. government will cut money — about $20 billion annually — used to pay for emergency care for undocumented immigrants — mostly in poor urban and rural areas. The health care law will eventually cut that money by half because of the anticipation that fewer people will lack insurance after the law is implemented. " http://newsroom.acep.org/fact_sheets?...
The Vera Institute says the average (39 state) annual cost of incarcerating a prisoner is $31,286 and, while the Department of Homeland Security hasn't made illegal alien prisoner statistics available for most of the current Administration's tenure, in 2010 the DHS said the average illegal alien population in State and County prisons and jails exceeded 300,000 and, exceeded 73,000 in Federal prisons. (Estimates from Bush Administration years had the illegal alien prisoner population as much as 100,000 higher.)
Multiply the number of children of illegal aliens in the public schools (3,457,000) by the average cost per student ($10,615) and you get $36.7 billion.
Multiply the minimum number of illegal aliens in prison (373,000) by the average annual cost ($31,286) and you get $11.7 billion.
Accept the ACERP estimate of Federal payouts for emergency room care (not state or local or uncompensated care) for illegal aliens and you get at least $20 billion.
Add together just these three ways in which illegal aliens burden us and you get a total of $68.4 billion.
So, per head, illegal aliens pay us $1,050 in all forms of Federal, state and local income, excise and sales taxes of all kinds and in return we pay $6,218 in costs for each of them.
Each illegal cost us almost 6 times as much as they pay in taxes. And you wondered why border states were so upset about illegal immigration and, in case you wondered why immigration produced such a boost for Trump, now you know. These are things to which common people are exposed and of which they're aware. When the Oklahoma Legislature passed the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act in 2007, making it a crime to employ or offer housing to illegal aliens, several schools in the Tulsa Public School system lost over 48% of their students. The city promptly declared itself a sanctuary city and they all came back. 48% of Tulsa's school taxes are being absorbed by the children of illegal aliens. Oklahoma's public schools rank 49th out of 50 in student performance and Tulsa's public schools rank lowest in the state. Do you imagine the flood of illegal immigrants that has poured into Tulsa in the past decade hasn't hurt the education received by the children of legal, taxpaying citizens?
I realize many of you are philosophically no-borders people but, unless you're complete fools you also realize Ayn Rand expected people to pull their weight so, in our less than ideal world, no-borders can't work.
iLeaving aside the intentinally bent on illegal activities other than illegal entry because they deserve zero concern and maximum effort to apprehend and eject think about those who are concerned with finding a better life for themselvces and there families. The kind that will make good citizens and deserve perhaps more support than some of our own citizens who only wish to wallow in the government pig trough scarfing up slop. and leavings.
Let the social workers take them home for supper and a shower. I'd rather give a boost to those who will work will participate as an honest citizen and do want to see their children and grandchildren successively better thier lives.
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
I am very hard on looters, moochers, quitters and losers. The kind that disrupt the schools and neighborhoods and ruin life for everyone else. No problem with ejecting them. No problem with forced tubal ligation and vasectomy. No problem with putting them to work on chain gangs and if paid have it garnished to feed their responsibiities. How do they differe from any foreign invader that seeks to harm our children, our families, our country and ourselves? Sematics and an accident of birth. Parse that social workers. Work and eat don't work and don't eat. That is the trrue American way since Plymouth Rock and Jamestown.
If your going to steal my money at least operate projects that are worth while and not just a means of expanidn gyour little socialist empires.
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Polemics don't work.
Damn invisible hands.
If the illegals weren't allowed in, the tomatoes would rot in the fields and producers would be forced to pay enough to attract American workers. Then, the 'jobs Americans won't do' would be filled. Prices would rise accordingly and Family America would be presented with a realistic hamburger price rather than higher taxes to support illegals. I'd wager they'd be better off.
I don't disagree with anything you described. Like you said, both parties are screwing us. It just that illegal immigration and government altruism throw off the 'invisible hand' at the expense of American citizens and that grates on me. Why do we allow it?
So solution is sent their best north to improve the USA and the rest of us go south to retain our buying power and go sailing.
And, you're right, those who are organized and smart enough to file claim a dozen dependents and not only get all their income tax refunded but, also get the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Simply put, they are the first class aliens and we are the second class citizens.
Those who are already here would have to find sponsors and go through the process and then, probably go back to Mexico so they could come back legally. None of the illegals I talk to have any interest, basically because they're now first class guests, who don't pay taxes, don't need driver's licenses, don't need insurance and can commit crimes with less fear of prosecution or imprisonment than we, the first class citizens. If they enroll in the program they become second class guest/citizens, who pay taxes, must get driver's licenses, must have insurance and, if they commit crimes, will be deported. Why do it?
So let's use the hamburger analogy and see whhat finger points where. Three culprits. We'll call one statists and the second corporatists and the third labor leaders.
Mom and Pop and the kids are heart broken. Soup'r'Burgers raised their rates. "Well explained the Manager the minimum wage went up and it's got to be paid for somehow. When it went up shift managers rates went up and so did the salary of the union delivery drivers and everyone else connected to the business. Plus the elderly pushed into a higher tax bracket and the high school kids got to pay taxes."
"So what can be done?"
"Bring down quality or quantity or the cost of raw materials."
"Hmmm not the first two how do you reduce the third one without reducing quality."
"Make sure they aren't union for one and the easy way to do that is over the border labor. They'll work fo $10 and no benefits and no complaints. 12 hours a day. So you need less of them . $120 and they are used to working six day weeks. $720. Times the exchange rate that's near 13,000 pesos a week. they live on one weeks pay and send near 40,000 a week home to the family. AND no complaints it's all stoop labor in the lettue and tomato fields or the butchering operations or hot and sticky baking the buns...No one will do that for $15 an hour and then pay taxes."
I see so that brings your costs down and our costs per burger back in line.
Exactly at home those folks make a thousand pesos a week they are estatic.
What about the legals on the green card and so forth programs?
They make higher wages but they are the manaers - already speak the language. The good ones we wean off one into the other system. Most just start a business at home and some got into tomato and lettuce growing brings the price down really low. Some of the stuff we use is made over the border like packets of catsup and mustard.
Wow. America is the land of opportunity.
Yes until the do gooders step in then ...
Repubs are happy their business flourish
Demos are happy, with a little luck they can get a lot extra votes and sometimes before amnesty
Family America is happy they can now get burgers at less than a dollar.
that's how and why it works.
Whose losing? Those wages are are artifically raised in the case of the minimum wage and artifically lowered in the case of the illegals.
If that didn't happen the wages and costs would find their own levels even if foreign labor and goods were imported. If no one wanted to chop cotton someone would invent a machine to do it for them. etc. etc. etc.
In the long run and add in the extra cost of government that always results from their own tinkering with and fettering of the system adds an extra drag on the economy.
Someone always has to pay there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
I'm assuming that's for people you wish to bring over the border and state so in advance. How does it work for those already over the border and illegal.
I'm rather reminded of the animal shelter where they are on a time clock to have someone find them a home.
Question to do this wouldn't they need a home country passport?
However, few aliens and employers choose to go the legal route. Legal means the employer must pay at least minimum wage and collect taxes. Legal means the employee must pay taxes. Almost all aliens and employers choose to forego the legal way and save money.
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