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Obama amnesty would actually save Feds $7.5 billion: CBO study
Washington Times ^ | 01/30/2015 | By Stephen Dinan

Posted on 01/30/2015 1:45:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Halting President Obama’s deportation amnesty will end up hurting Uncle Sam’s bottom line, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday in a new report that is bound to cause more problems for Republicans trying to block the White House’s executive action.

While keeping illegal immigrants in the shadows would save the government billions on spending, it would also mean billions in taxes that never get paid, leaving the federal budget a total of $7.5 billion worse over the next decade than it would be if Mr. Obama’s amnesties take effect as scheduled, the CBO said.

House Republicans have passed a bill to cancel the 2012 amnesty for so-called Dreamers and last November’s new amnesty, which expands the policy for Dreamers and enacts a new program for illegal immigrant parents.

The bill is now awaiting action in the Senate, where GOP leaders said they plan to tackle it beginning next week.

While the White House has said up to 5 million illegal immigrants would be eligible for the two amnesties, the CBO said it expects only about 1.5 million parents and 750,000 Dreamers to take advantage by 2017.

“CBO expects that the parents who are eligible for this program will be less likely than the people who are eligible for the original program to declare their unlawful presence to the government for a three-year deferral; in addition, they may have a harder time proving eligibility,” the analysts said.

Canceling the amnesties would mean those folks don’t come forward and don’t get the work permits that go along with the amnesty, sending many of them back to work off-the-books, which means less tax revenue for the government. The CBO said payroll taxes would take the biggest hit, suffering a $17 billion decline.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; cbo; cboamnesty; executiveamnesty; illegals; immigration
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To: a fool in paradise
Lol...that has to be who they consult, for their numbers.
21 posted on 01/30/2015 1:57:36 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: SeekAndFind

How much will it cost the state and local governments? Their schools, welfare, and emergency services are already being stressed now, and it’s only going to get worse.


22 posted on 01/30/2015 1:57:51 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, I believe this. Hussein calls the tune and his pipers play it. He has his minions all over fedgov. We’ll be lucky to survive the next two years..


23 posted on 01/30/2015 1:58:03 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They usually don’t make much money and just remember that each of their children go to school at a cost of about $10,000/year. Plus the family gets ‘Earned Income Tax Credit” and the government mails them a check


24 posted on 01/30/2015 1:59:13 PM PST by deener
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To: SeekAndFind

The lying CBO say that only a fifth of those elegible for Free Stuff will sign up. They are as wrong as they were when they estimated ObamaCare would not cost more than $900 billion to give Democrats cover before its passage. But immediately after it passed, they revised it to $1.4 TRILLION and now their guess is nearly $2 trillion, but we allknwitwieuchmre. The CBO is the fiscal arm of the Big Government propaganda machine, lying on cue to further their Socialist programs.


25 posted on 01/30/2015 2:01:41 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

Right...


26 posted on 01/30/2015 2:03:36 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I call BS on this one...
The CBO is smokin’ crack, or they’ve all been promised cushy jobs at the UN with SecGen Zero when he finally gives up the white hut.


27 posted on 01/30/2015 2:09:02 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Nachum

If I quit eating, I could save the cost of food. And if I burned my house down, I could save the cost of insurance and utilities. And if I’d been plumbed a little differently, I might have been a woman.


28 posted on 01/30/2015 2:11:03 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Groundhog Day 2015 - the opportunity to celebrate 1984 over and over and over and over again...Double and triplespeak.


29 posted on 01/30/2015 2:12:57 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (We plan to endure. 3%)
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To: SeekAndFind

Republicans need to remove the upper ranks of the CBO management and start over. Same with Census.


30 posted on 01/30/2015 2:14:13 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is of course based on the ASSUMPTION that those people then actually get jobs in the system and pay tactor those that applaxes Nor does it for various government give aways....


31 posted on 01/30/2015 2:16:53 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What were the straight jacket study rules and who gave them to CBO?


32 posted on 01/30/2015 2:17:12 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

And how much will it cost when they are added to SS and Medicare and Medicaid?


33 posted on 01/30/2015 2:18:02 PM PST by kabar
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To: SeekAndFind
But deporting every bleeping one of them would save us 7.5 TRILLION in prison costs alone.Add to that food stamp expenditures,free health care,Section 8 housing,free ObamaPhones,etc and,as a member of Congress once observed,you'd be talking serious money.
34 posted on 01/30/2015 2:18:05 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama;America's First "Third World" President)
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To: Nachum

“”it would also mean billions in taxes that never get paid””

And these billions in taxes would be paid by whom??? Illegals - working in the fields, restaurants, hotels, cleaning service, babysitters, maids etc.?

Boy! someone has their head screwed on backwards.. Or a lot of someones.........


35 posted on 01/30/2015 2:18:07 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: SeekAndFind

The question is whether upstanding citizens and their children and future generations will save money and be better off if law breakers and dream stealers are given what they have not earned. No country can take in too many too fast. Legal or illrgal.


36 posted on 01/30/2015 2:19:10 PM PST by amihow
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To: SeekAndFind

37 posted on 01/30/2015 2:22:18 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SeekAndFind

But but illegals just want to work and provide for hteir familes- or so we keep hearing- let’s look at the FACTS

In 2010, the average unlawful immigrant household received around $24,721 in government benefits

government aid to illegal households will increase to $43,900 when they begin receiving obamacare (Many LEGAL seniors, disabled and veterans have to try to survive on less than $20,000 a year)

80,000 to 100,000 illegal violent aliens are walking the streets and commit approx. 13 serious crimes each.

There are currently over 400,000 unaccounted illegal alien criminals in our country that our government ‘can’t find’. 1/4 of which are hard core criminals.

56% of illegal aliens who reenter the US were arrested 5 or more times.

Illegal aliens commit approximately 1,289,000 or more crimes per year.

Illegal aliens commit at least 2,158 murders each year , 3 times the average

Illegal alien sexual predators commit nearly 130,909 sexual crimes each year.

Nearly 240,000 illegal alien sex offenders are wandering our streets today attacking an average of 8 victims per offender

ice arrested and deported 6,085 illegal alien pedophileswho may molest 148 victims on average meaning there may be as many as 900,580 victims.

The overall financial impact of illegal alien crimes is $150 billion per year.


38 posted on 01/30/2015 2:29:59 PM PST by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m a little confused. If they kicked out the illegal invaders, businesses would have to hire Americans. Would Americans pay taxes?


39 posted on 01/30/2015 2:34:10 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: Proud2BeRight

[[What does it costs states and the American people to pay for police, jails, education, healthcare, welfare, lost Americans’ jobs, etc?]]

U.S. Spending At Least $18.6 Million Per Day to Incarcerate Illegal Aliens; More Than 195,000 Illegal Aliens Deported in Fiscal 2010 Had Committed Crimes Here (Base cost, not including the time and money they rack up launching frivolous lawsuits, demands and requests etc)

This was back in 2010- it’s likely a LOT higher now but we’re spending about 20 million PER DAY on illegal aliens now, and if dear leader grants amnesty, then we ARE going to be flooded with more and more VIOLENT CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS who will drive that cost up to perhaps even double- maybe more- You have to ask yourself this, Is our dear leader intentionally trying to destroy this country?


40 posted on 01/30/2015 2:39:38 PM PST by Bob434
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