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It seems that many illegal immigrants pay too much in taxes...
Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it.
But the latest figures available indicate it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year.
One rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year.
Paycheck withholding collects much of the federal tax from illegal workers, just as it does for legal workers.
The Internal Revenue Service doesn't track a worker's immigration status, yet many illegal immigrants fearful of deportation won't risk the government attention that will come from filing a return, even if they might qualify for a refund. Economist William Ford of Middle Tennessee State University says there are no firm figures on how many such taxpayers there are.
"The real question is how many of them pay more than they owe. There are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of people in that situation," Ford said.
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California pays more than 9billion a year to educate, feed, house, and sustain illegal immigrants and their anchor babies not to mention arrest, incarcerate, and provide translators to illegal alien criminals and then let's not get started on healthcare. Taxpayers pay for the birth of these anchor babies which costs California hundreds of million si fnot billions every single year. Times that number by 50 and imagine how quickly that 9billion they allegedly contribute quickly evaporates. It's not worth it. Never has been and it never will be.
Because you are an educator, I would expect more out of you. Sometime why don't you do "due dilligence" and completely research your subject rather than regurgitating what has been written in the news that fits your bias viewpoint?
After careful review, anyone with a even a modicum of logic can come to no other conclusion: illegal immigration must be halted, illegal immigrants here now must be deported and legal immigration needs decreased from the approx. 2 million allowed in per year currently.
Please review the following report on the FISCAL COST OF IMMIGRATION by economist Edwin Rubenstein just released this past week:
http://www.esrresearch.com/Rubensteinreport.pdf
A partial summary of the report:
The Fiscal Impact on 15 Federal Departments surveyed was: $346 billion in fiscal related costs in FY 2007
Each immigrant cost taxpayers more than $9,000 per year.
An immigrant household (2 adults, 2 children) cost taxpayers $36,000 per year.
Legal immigrants were not separated out from illegal immigrants for the fiscal impact study, but if they had been, the fiscal cost per ILLEGAL immigrant would be even more shocking than the figures quoted above.
The most extensive and authoritative study, prior to economist Edwin Rubenstein's "The Fiscal Impact of Immigration" (April 2008) , is the National Research Council (NRC)’s The New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1997).
The NRC staff analyzed federal, state, and local government expenditures on programs such as Medicaid, AFDC (now TANF), and SSI, as well as the cost of educating immigrants’ foreign- and native-born children.
NRC found that the average immigrant household receives $13,326 in federal annual expenditures and pays $10,664 in federal taxes—that is, they generate a fiscal deficit of $2,682 (1996 dollars)per household.
In 2007 dollars this is a deficit of $3,408 per immigrant household.
With 9 million households currently headed by immigrants, more than $30 billion ($3,408 x 9 million) of the federal deficit represents money transferred from native taxpayers to immigrants.
Our national immigration policies have to work for the United States. While improving the plight of the world’s poor is a laudable goal, the finite resources we have available to fulfill that goal would be swamped if there wasn’t some orderly and manageable system in place to limit entry into the United States to what this nation can actually support. The more illegal aliens that are permitted to subvert the immigration system, the fewer immigrants we can accommodate who might actually produce a positive benefit for our country.
The more we become a nation of illegal immigrants, the deeper we fall into anarchy.
Have you heard the saying, when California sneezes, the rest of the country catches the flu? Generally what starts in California eventually spreads to the rest of the country. That is, unless a state takes measures to resist it. Unless every state realistically tackles illegal immigration by instituting Comprehensive Immigration ENFORCEMENT, which California has refused to do, this is what you can expect:
As of 2006, California contained greater than 25% of the total illegal alien population within the U.S. Many of these illegals concentrate in Los Angeles. New statistics from the Department of Public Social Services reveal that illegal aliens and their families in Los Angeles County collected over $37 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in November 2007 – up $3 million dollars from September. Twenty five percent of the all welfare and food stamps benefits are going directly to the children of illegal aliens. Illegals collected over $20 million in welfare assistance for November 2007 and over $16 million in monthly food stamp allocations for a projected annual cost of $444 million. “This new information shows an alarming increase in the devastating impact Illegal immigration continues to have on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” said Antonovich, LA County Supervisor. “With $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $444 million in welfare allocations, the total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of dollars for education.”
Just keep in mind that the $37 million a month is for only one county in one state and is only welfare and foodstamp benefits. It doesn't include hospital care, education, fraud, wage depression, crime, depreciation of housing values, the portion of bad loans given to illegal aliens by banks, insurance costs and the myriad of other burdensome expenses that illegal aliens put on the backs of American citizens. There are 29 sanctuary cities in California and because of that there should be little wonder why so many illegal aliens stay in this state. They basically operate with impunity and even if they get arrested for a serious crime there is little chance of them being deported. They can sign up for welfare and food stamps with no questions asked and the hospitals provide them with free care as long as there are still emergency rooms that can’t turn them away for lack of funds. All things considered, California has rolled out the welcome mat for them.
Is there any wonder that California is right now in a fiscal crisis emergency with a budget deficit greater than $14 billion and growing? Reliable estimates calculate illegal aliens cost the state $10.5 billion each year! Why not cut all public services to those not in the U.S. legally? Just a simple thought on my part that would go a long way to putting California back on its feet.
What I heard at Berkeley from the sociology department (granted that Berkeley is very liberal) is that illegal immigrants pay more taxes than Americans. This was substantiated by Governor Pete Wilson when he was mayor of San Diego although ironically he was re-elected largely because of support for anti-immigration prop 187 in CA. What his study found was that illegal immigrants pay taxes using false social security numbers because they are afraid that they will be caught by immigration services. Because they use false SS numbers with fraudulent addresses, they get no tax returns. In addition, since the great majority of illegal aliens take low-wage jobs, they fall into a tax bracket where they should be paying very small little or no taxes. They are also more reluctant than any other minority to use social services because again they are afraid of the paper trail. So, at least according to this study, they pay more taxes than low-income Americans, and they use less social services. I'd also like to point out that free trade with America was and is a great stimulus for Mexican immigration to America. Mexico's farmers have been displaced by competition with American subsidized and mass-produced agriculture. Only large farms can realistically buy all the machinery, hybrid seeds, nitrogen fertilizer, etc. to do this (all of this must be bought from American agribusiness by the way). The result is all small farmers selling their land and moving to industrial centers for jobs. The problem is that there aren't enough jobs in industry to support this new population of homeless farmers. This has created the slums surrounding Mexico City which are amongst the biggest in the world. The poor in these slums are left faced with a choice between either extreme poverty in Mexico or illegal immigration to America. Mexicans have grown poor largely at the benefit of trasnational corporations in America, and when they move here because of it, we turn them into criminals. Don't you think it's weird that all these Mexicans choose to move into America despite the pervasive hostility and lack of rights and access strictly good jobs? We have created these conditions. Politicians are using immigrants as a scapegoat to gain popularity with the white suburban middle-class who are scared about the growing competition for better jobs and the growing cost of living which are both due to transnational corporations not immigrants.
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