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The real costs of amnesty
Miami Herald ^ | June 11, 2012 | BY ROBERT RECTOR

Posted on 06/11/2013 5:24:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The amnesty under consideration in Congress would come at an enormous cost: more than $5 trillion over the lifetime of immigrants who are legalized. But the bill is structured to hide most of those costs from voters.

To see how, let’s start with some basic facts about taxes and spending in the United States. The average household receives about $32,000 in cash and services from federal, state and local governments combined. These range from direct benefits such as Social Security to public services such as police and firefighting.

Households headed by college graduates tend to pay more in taxes than they receive in government benefits. At the other end of the spectrum, households headed by someone without a high-school diploma tend to receive about $4 in government benefits for every $1 they pay in taxes. This is not a comment on the relative “worth” of any type of household, but a simple reflection of our redistributionist system.

So what does this have to do with amnesty? The typical undocumented immigrant in the United States today has about a 10th-grade education. Individuals with educational attainment that low, on average, will be net fiscal consumers rather than contributors.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; cost; gang; rinos; senate
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1 posted on 06/11/2013 5:24:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
50 million newly not illegal unemployed seeking work in a system that already has almost that many people not working. Rush says they could work full time and since they are not covered by oBamacare they will not have to pay fines for not having insurance. So what happens when they bring say a couple hundred million family and friends?
2 posted on 06/11/2013 5:30:11 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

America is already unrecognizable because of the American electorate being replaced since 1965, it changed everything.

The issues and concerns and the things that politicians run on have nothing in common with the now distant, America.

Millions more democrat voters and their racialized, militanized offspring, will leap frog us into something that we can’t even see from this time, just as 1970 America could never have imagined what we live in today.


3 posted on 06/11/2013 5:38:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The bill gives rewards to employers for hiring newly-minted citizens over natural-born citizens.

It's almost like our government would like to eliminate natural-born citizens.

Surely that wouldn't be their plan?

</sarcasm>

4 posted on 06/11/2013 5:39:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Amnesty will hurt the job market for blacks more than anyone.


5 posted on 06/11/2013 5:40:30 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The real cost of this amnesty fraud is that America will never see another fair election again. As soon as these people are organized by ACORN, La Raza and LULAC they will be voting all across our nation and they will have the power to control both houses of congress which means all the restrictions, regulations and "waiting period" Rubio's commercials talk about will go right out the window. After which the flood gates will be open even wider.
6 posted on 06/11/2013 5:41:44 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep one hand on my shoulder and the other over my mouth.)
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To: Baynative

I just saw a promo for the “World War Z” movie that is coming out in a couple of weeks. Massive hordes of blood sucking zombies swarming the borders of America. Pretty much sums up amnesty for me.


7 posted on 06/11/2013 5:45:29 PM PDT by littleharbour ("All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ~ James Madison)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Honestly, my only issue with amnesty is that the dems will immediately set about plugging them all into their welfare plantation and forcing the rest of us to subsidize their new voter base. If we lived in a purely capitalist society with a flat and low federal income tax, a small and unobtrusive federal government that respected the constitution and the rule of law, I would have no problem with welcoming Hispanics and anyone else that came here looking to work hard and make a better life for themselves. It is the socialist poison that Democrats pour down everyone’s throat that ruins things for everyone.


8 posted on 06/11/2013 5:49:37 PM PDT by RC one
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To: Baynative

I agree with your post. But, I say that 2014 will be the end of the republican party ....not because of illegals voting ...but, because the conservative base with be shattered into 10 million pieces because of this amnesty bill.....and that’s how the dems get the house and immediately end the “path to citizenship” and just declare them citizens immediately


9 posted on 06/11/2013 5:53:49 PM PDT by thestob (Marco Rubio is a liar, and he thinks that you're a fool)
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To: Baynative

So what do I do to protect my kids? Other than making sure they get decent educations and learn Spanish, what the hell can I do?


10 posted on 06/11/2013 5:54:03 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: RC one

Honestly, my only issue with amnesty is that the dems will immediately set about plugging them all into their welfare plantation and forcing the rest of us to subsidize their new voter base.


That will naturally happen because there are no jobs for the millions to fill when they arrive here.

Now get back to work, gringo.


11 posted on 06/11/2013 5:57:26 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: laplata
That will naturally happen because there are no jobs for the millions to fill when they arrive here.

Thanks to all the socialist poison.

Now get back to work, gringo.

Of course, someone has to pay for all those millions of unemployed democrats.

12 posted on 06/11/2013 6:00:56 PM PDT by RC one
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WEll get ready because this time they are going to jam it down our throats. Horrifying but true.


13 posted on 06/11/2013 6:28:53 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It's almost like our government would like to eliminate natural-born citizens

You know that's the plan.

And those are the stakes. The drowning of the Americans in a sea of aliens.

The revenge of the Ruling Class, which considers us all as impudent peasants.

14 posted on 06/11/2013 6:32:22 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: RC one

It’s beyond disgusting.


15 posted on 06/11/2013 6:51:13 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The pubbies are as guilty of whoremongering on this one as the rats. They will sell their birthright (and ours) for a few votes. They benefit, we suffer. Why would I ever vote for one of these traitors again?


16 posted on 06/11/2013 7:15:49 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; WXRGina; All

Illegal aliens invade the USA for Welfare and Wages.

1.) End the Anchor Baby Law.

2.) End the Hospital Emergency Room No Payment Law.

3.) End ANY other Welfare to Aliens.

4.) Fine US employers $1,000 per day per employee who is an alien.

5.) Spend NO money on “securing the border.”

6.) Spend money on Chainlink/ Concertina wire desert prisons for repeat offenders who have invaded our Country.

7.) Transfer Border Invasion Enforcement to the US National Guard in each State, and US Coast Guard..


17 posted on 06/11/2013 8:11:29 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

We have to fight this evil, anti-American bill, fight it!


18 posted on 06/11/2013 8:30:19 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
Absolutely we have to fight it. Some time ago they also wanted to pass such a bill, and we wrote and phoned Washington, and kept on writing - and we blocked it then.
19 posted on 06/11/2013 8:37:05 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The real Cost of Amnesty?

Freedom


20 posted on 06/11/2013 11:15:18 PM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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