And then you add in the drain of the illegals to the system and we are in even bigger jeopardy.
One thing I like about the tax cuts Bush made (and why they should be permanent) is that they grew the economy. Let’s look at this optimistically. If we can keep taxes down, the money that doesn't get taken will expand the economy and grow tax revenues due to all the newly employed folks paying their (smaller) taxes.
So if those people who are here illegally are given green cards or workers passes, wouldn't they too have to pay taxes? Wouldn't that actually help? I would also have them pay a 10% hospital and school tax to support the refunding of something they've been getting for nothing these past several years.