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Illegal Immigrants Cost Illinois $3.85 Billion A Year—State On Verge Of Bankruptcy
National Economics Editorial ^ | July 4, 2017 | Dylan Scott

Posted on 07/05/2017 2:51:14 PM PDT by Thalean

illegal immigration costs Illinois $3.85 billion per year. This number is a low estimate in a particularly low year because of the budget crisis happening in Illinois currently.

So let’s put that number in perspective.

As mentioned above, Illinois is in a budget crisis and on the verge of bankruptcy. Their state debt is upwards of $64 billion. Their credit rating is a BBB-, which is one notch above a junk/non-investment rating. They are also projected to have their credit further downgraded.

Illinois also has unpaid bills upwards of $15 billion (with $800 million per year just in interest payments) and $130 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.

Hell Illinois can’t even fund its lotteries anymore.

Why?

Because Illinois can’t pass a budget. This doesn’t mean they stop spending though. In fact, the spending target for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is $37.3 billion for the upcoming fiscal year, and the House just agreed to cover $36.5 billion of that.

No matter which way you slice it, or what spending bill passes, illegal immigration will eat roughly 10% of that spending.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationaleconomicseditorial.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; democrats; illegalimmigration; illinois; pricetag
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1 posted on 07/05/2017 2:51:14 PM PDT by Thalean
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To: Thalean

“No matter which way you slice it, or what spending bill passes, illegal immigration will eat roughly 10% of that spending.”

I also wonder what percentage of citizens in Illinois pay taxes, and what percentage of them are responsible for 90% of Illinois revenue.


2 posted on 07/05/2017 2:58:27 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Thalean

The majority of the voters in ILL must like it. Of course, many voters in ILL are illegal alien invader parasites.


3 posted on 07/05/2017 3:01:17 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Thalean
Whoever talked them into taking all the illegals should pony up with the cash.

Soros has 25.2 billion. Obummer and Moochie recently received a combined amount book advance of 120 million.

4 posted on 07/05/2017 3:01:46 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

Excuse me while I HA HA

It would be a HA HA HA but that’s our tax payers money that’s given to those illegal aliens..

Plus theyre bankrupt also due to the stupid hefty pensions, something they have to continue to pay and too bad about the police and the garbage...


5 posted on 07/05/2017 3:04:04 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: hal ogen

Makes me think of the initiation scene in “Animal House”.


6 posted on 07/05/2017 3:10:31 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: All

where’s the Simpson character saying “haha”?


7 posted on 07/05/2017 3:12:14 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Rehab is for quitters.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
A frickin' joke......all the pols are filthy rich.....siphoning off zillions for themselves.

Middle class pensioneers get sucker-punched.....but an insider POS like Valerie Jarrett is cashing numerous federal and state govt checks...like this one (of many).

================================================== Valerie Jarrett pocketed $36K Annual Pension For Short-Term Part-Time Chicago Transit job
dailycaller.com ^ | 2/17/2016 | Chuck Ross / FR Posted by rktman

Chicago is known for its L-train. But it's the gravy train that White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett prefers to ride.

In addition to the $173,922 Jarrett earns per annum as President Obama's senior adviser, she is also paid an annual pension of $35,660 for the eight years she served as chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority, according to a Chicago Sun Times investigation.

Jarrett was appointed to chairman of the agency - a part-time position - in 1995 by then-mayor Richard Daley, whose brother, William Daley, served as Obama's chief of staff. Jarrett served as the former mayor's deputy chief of staff and was appointed to numerous other positions during his term. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

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Wonder how many transportation bonds were issued while Jarrett was at Chicago Transit? Bond issues are pols favorite form of thievery. Valrtie's pension payout would pale against her hidden income from lucrative Chicago bond deals.

8 posted on 07/05/2017 3:13:01 PM PDT by Liz
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To: neverevergiveup

3.85 billion means that every man, woman, and child in Illinois is on the hook for $300.00 yearly to support illegal aliens.


9 posted on 07/05/2017 3:13:39 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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VALERIE JARRETT IS THE KEEPER OF (smirk) "OBAMA'S FEDERAL INHERITANCE" Iran-born Valerie Jarrett held secret meetings with Iran that resulted in the US giving Iran $150 billion dollars......later additional millions and gold got handed over secretly.

Post-presidency Obama and the missus have mega dollars dancing in their heads. Two Clintonesque foundations and the Obama library fund are all set to get BIG donations from his Muslim confreres.

We need to see solicitation letters Valerie sent, requests for donations to Obama's billion dollar Chicago library (to be built using eminent domain).

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ITEM ---We need to see all of Valerie's correspondence, emails, snail mails, hard drives, wire-transfers, text files, offshore banking activity, and the like.

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10 posted on 07/05/2017 3:17:04 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Sasparilla

If they didn’t, wouldn’t they be racists...or something???


11 posted on 07/05/2017 3:18:13 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Move along nothin to see here folks.

Government as usual, democrats using other people’s money to buy votes.

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” - Alexis de Tocqueville


12 posted on 07/05/2017 3:20:07 PM PDT by infool7 (The ugly Truth is just a big lie.)
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To: Liz

Even worse was Mooshy’s 300,000 dollar salary for her thoroughly inessential “Outreach” position connected with the once-great U.of Chicago and their Hospital. The “job” was so blatantly patronage on a grand scale that it was never continued or filled with anyone else once she left it when BARRY started ascending through the political ranks. Chicago’s Black Political elites had their own fiefdom.


13 posted on 07/05/2017 3:33:53 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("If you want to be able to predict the future, first you have to create it"---Lincoln)
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To: Thalean

yep that’s your money these Illegals are sending home


14 posted on 07/05/2017 3:41:01 PM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: Thalean

Land O Lincoln.
We can’t allow the south to secede, they’re paying the bills..!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon


15 posted on 07/05/2017 3:51:06 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Thalean

Every state that has illegal aliens is being bled dry by them.
Nationally it is in the billions.
Citizens of other countries do not have any right to just move in if they feel like it.


16 posted on 07/05/2017 3:57:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Thalean

This must be fake news because the Leftists always say immigrants are wealth creators.


17 posted on 07/05/2017 4:11:56 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Sasparilla

Yes, except not every man or woman in Illinois pay taxes, so the those doing the funding are ‘on the hook’ as you say for significantly more.


18 posted on 07/05/2017 4:32:10 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Thalean; BillyBoy; PhilCollins; chicagolady

Will somebody please post this on the state board ! I will be making copies of this to spread around in the 23rd, and 13th wards.I urge others to do the same in their localities


19 posted on 07/05/2017 4:39:40 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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To: neverevergiveup

....those doing the funding are ‘on the hook’ as you say for significantly more...

OK...recalculation...6 million returns last year = $633.00 per tax return to support and coddle illegals.


20 posted on 07/05/2017 4:43:38 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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