Posted on 04/11/2007 6:06:58 AM PDT by radar101
2/3 of immigrants cost Americans $22,449 a year, shows new study.
WASHINGTON – Someone has finally fixed an approximate taxpayer cost of between 12 million and 15 million illegal aliens residing in the U.S.
A new study by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector found a household headed by an individual without a high school education, including about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.
Over the course of the household's lifetime that tax burden translates to $1.1 million If the lower figure of 12 million illegal aliens is used for estimation purposes, the total tax burden translates to $2.2 trillion.
"Would any of us buy shares in a company that we knew would produce a loss of a million dollars a share," asks Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, in response to the study. "Cheap labor is not cheap at the cost of over a million dollars per head of household."
Rector's study, "The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer," examines the economics of the 17.7 million American households made up of people without a high-school degree. Using numbers from the Census Bureau, the Congressional Research Service, the Bureau of Labor Standards and other government agencies, Rector determined what they earn, what they spend and what they receive in government services.
About half of the 17.7 million households studied are illegal aliens. About two-thirds of illegal alien households are headed by someone without a high school degree. Only 10 percent of native-born Americans fit into that category.
"Over the next ten years the total cost of low-skill households to the taxpayer (immediate benefits minus taxes paid) is likely to be at least $3.9 trillion," Rector writes. "This number would go up significantly if changes in immigration policy lead to substantial increases in the number of low-skill immigrants entering the country and receiving services."
Wrong again - a married man with several dependents making $25,000 a year would not owe any tax, therefore he would not have to have anything withheld.
Not pickin' on ya', Sun, just had to make a comment here...
How many people still don't realize this?
Ping!
Geesh! George Bush wants to allow them to collect SS on the monies that were paid in their "names" under a totalization agreement with mexico. How does that add up?
“Not pickin’ on ya’, Sun, just had to make a comment here...
How many people still don’t realize this?”
Probably the vast majority. Tell everybody you know.
I did - the next post was to the Border Ping List - over 300 FReepers got pinged to this.
“..over 300 FReepers got pinged to this.”
Great, and if they each tell another person, and some of them even write letters to editors, who knows how many people will get the information.
the magic 12 million of them is an OLD number. 12 million has been used for more than 10 years. At 3 million a year coming over the border, x10 years, OH MY, that is 30 million...plus the 12 million here, makes 42 million of them. Plus not counting their anchor babies being born at an alarming rate, well maybe that might just make an even 50 million.
The problem is worse when you consider that these people just don’t come from Mexico, but from all over the planet. In a short time, the entire planet of human beings will be here. LOVELY and we will all be paying for them. Thanks to our spineless politicians.
Heritage Foundation recently said that illegals will cost us 3.7 trillion in the next 10 years. What s swell and smart country we are. /sar
Privatize profits, socialize costs.
bttt
Yup. Any idea how many babies those 12 mil produced?
Wow.
BTTT
Don't forget the "representatives" who aren't representing us either! I wonder how much money it took to get all of them to sell us out?
“Don’t forget the “representatives” who aren’t representing us either! I wonder how much money it took to get all of them to sell us out?”
Plenty! And they have it too!
“Any idea how many babies those 12 mil produced?”
The girls start at about age 14 and are having 4 or 5 each.....
There was something on the radio recently about Kern County in CA where the Hispanic teenage girls thought nothing of having babies out of wedlock....
Which gives Mommy big freebie entitlements.....
Thus a great big the-American-government-is-the-daddy bill for the American taxpayer to work off......
Well, we're losing money on every one, but we make it up in volume! /s
Mark
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