Posted on 09/27/2016 3:42:26 PM PDT by detective
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine indicated that “first-generation immigrants are more costly to governments, mainly at the state and local levels, than are the native-born, in large part due to the costs of educating their children.”
An article about the report in the Washington Times observed that the academies’ “researchers tested eight scenarios, and in each of them taxpayers came out worse.”
The Times noted that in the best-case scenario, the federal government came out ahead as a result of immigration, but the states showed negative fiscal effects, for a total loss of $43 billion in 2013. However, the worst-case scenario showed federal, state, and local governments losing a combined total of $296 billion in 2013 because of the financial impact of immigration.
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Time to end immigration. Not just illegal immigration. End all immigration.
Oh it’s much higher than that. I’ve seen different numbers fom different sources. That’s just to get them across the border. That doesn’t include all the freebies once they get here.
This ties in with Trump’s comments on the crumbling infrastructure in the debate; in my area as Americans flee or die off they are replaced by immigrants (legal and illegal) who assume white people will continue maintaining the infrastructure even when they are long gone. They can transfer white peoples’ money from other areas for a short while, but eventually they’ll be cursing at filled cemeteries demanding the corpses fix everything.
I can honestly say I hope the jihadis plant their next take-down beneath the headquarters of Goldman Sachs.
If someone has to go, let it be Goldman Sachs.
Not even close.
The study is based on 11 million illegal aliens.
The cost would double or triple if the actual number of illegals was used.
So, how many illegals are here anyway?
Immigration at this point in our nations history makes little economic sense. I believe the costs are far higher even as they become difficult to quantify because most of these studies address illegal immigration only. They do not typically factor in the asylum seekers and other immigrants we are taking in “legally”. The costs can also be further multiplied to the second generation or American born children of immigrants. They will never pay in taxes or generate enough economic activity to pay for themselves. On top of that, how do we quantify the substandard education for our own citizens that result and the lack of any opportunity for entry-level jobs that I enjoyed as a teenager?
Immigration has to be assessed absent political correctness. It is a simple dollars and sense calculation.
Is that legal or illegal immigration?
Is that original cost?
Is that annual or compounded?
Or the cost of all future generations of bastards in perpetuity?
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