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To: tx_eggman
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Texas, the second-hardest-hit state after California, would lose 1.2 million undocumented workers and $220.7 billion in expenditures.

By the author's calculations then, each illegal immigrant in Texas is generating $183,333 in expenditures.

What a steaming pile of BS.

2 posted on 05/20/2008 7:02:34 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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To: tx_eggman
What a steaming pile of BS.

Pile, I would say it is approaching several super tanker boat loads.

6 posted on 05/20/2008 7:14:10 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: tx_eggman
By the author's calculations then, each illegal immigrant in Texas is generating $183,333 in expenditures. What a steaming pile of BS.
My calculator came up with a slightly higher number, but bump that for sure.
26 posted on 05/20/2008 8:15:28 PM PDT by allmost
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To: tx_eggman
"each illegal immigrant in Texas is generating $183,333 in expenditures"

LOL. Leftists can't even bother to strive for plausibility most of the time when they toss out their propaganda. As a lifelong citizen of the great USA I am still looking to land the kind of job which would allow me to spew out annual expenditures on that level..... but I'm pretty certain that illegals are probably averaging a lot closer to $30K per year, maybe a bit more, and nowhere near $180K.

Besides, any jobs that are held by illegals can be filled by LEGAL immigrants if we really cannot find anyone already legally here to fill them.
31 posted on 05/20/2008 8:36:01 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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