Posted on 04/05/2007 2:19:00 PM PDT by blam
A new study has been released that shows immigrants pay under $10,000 in taxes. Yet, they receive more than $32,000 in social services benefits.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/05/ldt.01.html
REP. BRIAN BILBRAY, (R) CA: Well, this study really shows why we spend billions and billions. We try to reduce the number of people who are undereducated, under-trained. Because they don’t have the ability to produce the resources to be able to pay for the overhead that you have.
And then when you have people that stand up and try to justify illegal immigration that we need more poor, uneducated people in the country, the Heritage Foundation sort of re-enforces that this is an issue that goes beyond legal and illegal immigration. It’s a concept that we should try to get those paying a major portion of the expense of what they produce.
We’re really talking for every illegal immigrant family in this country, we’re giving them the equivalent of a brand-new mustang convertible every year. That’s something that I think we’ve got to recognize is the real expense of illegal immigration.
DOBBS: Robert Rector, let’s put up this chart of showing the cost of low-scale workers. And this is an interesting way to look at it. They pay under $10,000 in taxes. Yet, they receive more than $32,000 in benefits.
The tax burden, obviously, is the difference between the two. And that is an impressive number. But it rises to over $1 million over the lifetime of such workers.
There’s another way to look at this. It seems to me, Robert Rector. And that is if low-skill workers are being brought in by corporate America, what they’re really doing is pushing the burden of providing for those low-skill workers, particularly, illegal immigrant, off on the American taxpayer, so that the company, the employer of those illegal aliens won’t be paying that 32 — or $22,000, and the difference, if we can assume that, each year.
RECTOR: That’s exactly right. When the Chamber of Commerce will come to me and lobby and say, oh, we have to have these workers. We’d have to pay a dollar an hour more if we didn’t have them.
I say, look, each one of these workers that you bring in like this, if they come in with family, it’s costing the taxpayers $22,000. Do you as an employ want to pay that cost? They say, oh no, no. We don’t want to pay that.
They just want to shift those costs onto the taxpayer so they can make a tiny bit more profit. It’s a terrible, terrible idea. And we have a very generous system for people born in the United States, we support them through welfare. We subsidize their Social Security. We give basically free education for their kids.
But what we really have now is a kind of trans-national welfare outreach where we’re pulling more welfare recipients into the country.
The problem is, the middle class is fleeing the cities and taking the tax base with them. The illegals coming into the cities are peasants without any skills or education. Taxes are skyrocketing due to the need for more social programs. In order for the schools to maintain their funding from the state, more taxes are needed.
To add more problems to the fire, when the middle class departs, wages will be reduced since immigrants work for peanuts. This is the start of the downwards spiral to a depression in metropolitan cities because housing and rent will go down since the qualified buyers disappears.
Who in their right mind would live in Los Angeles, the cesspool of California.
Come look at this place.
It is full of criminals, gangs, graffiti, underpolicied neighborhoods, the worst schools in the modern world.
Sanctuary City....you reap what you sow.
Interestingly, what with the Internet and all (thank you, Al Gore), we don't really need to amass in cities anymore, not like we did during the heyday of the industrial revolution.
This may be nature's way of thinning out the cities and equalizing population distribution. There is so much unused yet usable land in this country. I can handle living in a huge home on hundreds of acres while earning my living via online and telephoning communications. I'd be happy with that.
OK, I'll digress from digressing now.
Have you been to Detroit?
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