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Recent wave of illegal immigration could net the federal government nearly $1 trillion, study says
San Antonio Express News ^ | 07/26/2024 | By Benjamin Wermund, Austin Bureau

Posted on 07/26/2024 7:24:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

The CBO estimates the immigration surge will create $1.2 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, mostly from income taxes and spending by the estimated 8.7 million migrants living in the U.S. during that time.

The recent surge in migration across the southern border could help slash the federal deficit by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, according to a recent report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The CBO estimates the immigration surge will create $1.2 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, mostly from income taxes and spending by the estimated 8.7 million migrants living in the U.S. during that time. Those same migrants would cost the federal government just $300 billion in health care and other costs, according to the estimate, bringing the net benefit to $900 billion.

The new study builds on an extensive body of research showing immigrants are a boon to the economy, especially at the federal level. Immigrants have federal taxes withheld from their paychecks, and pay sales tax, property tax and more.

But it includes one big caveat: the total doesn’t factor in the costs of border crossings to state and local governments, which in some cases have spent heavily to accommodate the massive influx of asylum seekers.

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


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To: Responsibility2nd

And according to the OMB (run by the democrats right now) illegal immigration is costing almost 500B per year. Now multiply that by 10 and then subtract 1T. Sounds like a 4T loss you halfwit liars!


41 posted on 07/26/2024 9:20:16 PM PDT by zoomie92 (Reality check)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m really getting sick of the constant gaslighting.


42 posted on 07/26/2024 9:21:23 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Responsibility2nd

You know about the listeria in deli meat (Boar’s Head) and various fresh vegs? Listeria can be caused by feces. Same cause as last year’s salmonella lettuce. Who’s picking our vegetables?


43 posted on 07/26/2024 9:45:39 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Responsibility2nd

It will only cost us dearly in every single way.


44 posted on 07/26/2024 9:55:53 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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Go to the Emergency room at night. Prepare to wait about 10-18 hours.

Then go to an Elementary school. They spend most of the time with language, and attending to bring up the bottom to a mediocre level.

The CBO has always been way, way off, and has never been nonpartisan.


45 posted on 07/26/2024 10:00:14 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: goodnesswins

Like most CBO studies, this one was ordered up with a political slant to assess only the net effect of immigration on federal revenues without taking into account the broader negative effects on the country. The study excluded net increases in federal discretionary spending, and net increases in state and local spending. It also did not consider the ill effects of immigration on wages and income distribution, crime, housing, and social cohesion.


46 posted on 07/26/2024 10:14:18 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Responsibility2nd

8.7 million “migrants”.

Lies upon lies upon lies.

Mexicans working in the USA sent $63 Billion back to Mexico in 2023. Just Mexico. Probably 3x that much total including other nations.

Billions of dollars taken OUT of OUR economy and into theirs. Of course, nothing in comparison to the Trillions of dollars we ship over to China in exchange for cheap goods.

But at least we end up with crap from China which adds to our economy.


47 posted on 07/26/2024 10:24:13 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

WTF_ever


48 posted on 07/26/2024 10:38:15 PM PDT by know.your.why
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FR thread titled: Mega migrant caravan ‘from dozens of countries’ begins march to the US amid fears Trump will return to the White House..........

Continued draining of our Social Security to commence.


As part of a 10-month investigation Scripps News uncovered that every year, thousands of migrant children disappear from their homes shortly after arriving in the U.S. But there is no clear local, state or federal government agency taking responsibility for searching for many of these missing ...Apr 2, 2024

This is so bogus-——the kids arent missing, they are loaned out, passed around to other migrants. to be used in lucrative scams to get tax dollars from S/S and hefty disability checks.

Biden vengefully overturned Trump’s order to get the DNA of these so-called needy families, to make sure the kids are really theirs.

A common practice by these greedy illegals is getting a crooked doctor to say a kid’s autistic b/c they get hefty SS tax paid benefits every month for the kid.

The maximum possible disability benefit for autism in 2024 is $943 per month for SSI and about $3,822 per month for SSDI. These maximums apply regardless of what condition you have or whether you apply with one condition or multiple. The actual amount received depends on specific circumstances. (Dec 7, 2023)

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a key benefit for children under 16 living with disability, including autism. It is assessed according to care needs, and a diagnosis is not required to make a claim. DLA helps cover the extra costs of raising a child with a disability. (Jan 30, 2024)

And it’s a sure bet they invent their “family circumstances.”

Plus there’s millions of senior immigrants collecting who have never worked in the US and never put a dime in the system.


49 posted on 07/26/2024 10:47:49 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ah, so now there’s only 8 million illegals in the US (after 2.5 million entered last year). Alrighty then. And they will all sign up to pay income tax. They think we’re stupid.


50 posted on 07/26/2024 11:57:31 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: goodnesswins

Yeah, no kidding

How about AMERICAN CITIZENS????????


51 posted on 07/27/2024 12:53:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Responsibility2nd

CBO, garbage data in, garbage data out.


52 posted on 07/27/2024 3:45:40 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Reminds me of how my wife often tells me how much money she “saved” is by buying things , we don’t need, but were on “sale”


53 posted on 07/27/2024 3:49:35 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Responsibility2nd

They may not the government $1.2 trillion in taxes but they’ll duck $4 trillion in government handouts so a massive net loss not to mention the net loss in American jobs taken by illegal scum.


54 posted on 07/27/2024 4:33:42 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

Poor Americans do not now and never will pay their fair share. The illegals concentrating in the City States will pay no taxes at all


55 posted on 07/27/2024 4:38:25 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

56 posted on 07/27/2024 5:04:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Takes me back to the Obama economy and how Pelosi was lecturing on how unemployment benefits were a boon to the economy...


57 posted on 07/27/2024 5:08:12 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Just think how many trillion dollars will be saved when President Trump sends all the illegals back from where they cometh.


58 posted on 07/27/2024 5:31:23 AM PDT by Flint
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To: Responsibility2nd

How can progressives be FOR the green new deal while simultaneously spreading BS all over the Country?


59 posted on 07/27/2024 5:32:47 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The CBO is clueless about how many illegals get paid in cash construction is one of the largest almost no paper trail at all and they send millions back to their family in their country.
Sending millions out out of the country with no return appears to be a habit of the democrats.
Now top it off with all the free medical and all the other things it’s a no win deal.
Things the democrats do for votes is never a win deal.


60 posted on 07/27/2024 7:37:08 AM PDT by Vaduz
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