Among the findings:
Illegal alien households are estimated to use $2,700 a year more in services than they pay in taxes, creating a total fiscal burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in 2002.
Among the largest federal costs: Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).
If illegal aliens were legalized and began to pay taxes and use services like legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual fiscal deficit at the federal level would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total federal deficit of $29 billion.
With nearly two-third of illegals lacking a high school diploma, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments — not their legal status or their unwillingness to work.
Amnesty increases costs because illegals would still be largely unskilled, and thus their tax payments would continue to be very modest, but once legalized they would be able to access many more government services.
The fact that legal immigrants with little schooling are a fiscal drain on federal coffers does not mean that legal immigrants overall are a drain. Many legal immigrants are highly skilled.
Because many of the costs are due to their U.S.-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth, barring illegals themselves from federal programs will not significantly reduce costs.
Although they create a net drain on the federal government, the average illegal household pays more than $4,200 a year in federal taxes, for a total of nearly $16 billion.
However, they impose annual costs of more than $26.3 billion, or about $6,950 per illegal household.
About 43 percent, or $7 billion, of the federal taxes illegals pay go to Social Security and Medicare.
Employers do not see the costs associated with less-educated immigrant workers because the costs are spread out among all taxpayers.
And it's growing.
placemark
My proposal would.
I would like to see it become mandatory that only a parent or legal guardian who is a U.S. citizen and has contributed to the Social Security trust fund for a minimum of twenty consecutive quarters may apply for taxpayer-funded benefits or services on behalf of their dependant children.
I reread this three times to understand what they are saying. I dont think legal immigrants are a problem. It looks like they are comparing legal to giving amnesty to illegals to prove a point. The big problem is illegals do not contribute to society for the most part and they have learned quickly to milk the system. They use females to collect welfare and food stamps, etc, etc while they work and send money back to Mexico. Its a mindset of socialism that is ingrained in their culture.
If they are going to stay and we are going to give all of them amnesty we must force them to assimilate. We must make a effort to slow down the numbers entering illegaly and we have to force them to accept English. The problem is here to stay.
With that in mind we the people have to make the parasites in DC have a way of tracking the illegals. They cannot continue to be allowed to commit crimes and go to Mexico, then cross back with a new ID and go to a different area. THis means the parasites will force national ID on all americans in order to try to solve the problem they have created.
This is not about cheap labor for reps and votes for dems. Its about destroying American soveringty and the middle class. Its a fight for the constitution. Its about taking away our second amendment rights.
Theres much more to this then there appears to be. The parasites and predators in DC (bankers,politicians, multinational corps, and UN forces) are creating this huge problem for a reason and our children and grandchildren will live in a third world country because we are not marching in the streets. Just wait untill the islamic terrorists start doing here what they do in Israel. The commie MSM will rise up with the pen to take away our guns.
I know I sound like a madman but mark my words because this illegal invasion is destroying the America we grew up in. The only american dream will be staying alive and finding a way to feed our families after we are brought down to the same level as all the other nations to the south of us. You will have a top one percent and the rest will be like Mexico is now.