[Georgia Girl 2]

Sadly they cost what a couple hundred billion a year in welfare, heathcare, education, incarceration etc?

[ViLaLuz]

So they might contribute chump change but cost us trillions in the long run.

[Mastador1]

A stinkin drop in the bucket from how much they siphon!

[sten]

there’s about 30m illegals in the country, by the last estimate

$2.2 BILLION would mean they will ‘contribute’ $75 total. each.

that’s it.

meanwhile, they will be using the welfare and entitlement systems receiving in excess of $500/mon, minimum. that’s a cost of roughly $180 BILLION

[BobL]

So, a whole $200 per year, per Illegal.

Americans ‘contribute’ at least $2000 per person, per year, and governments need virtually every penny of that, just to meet what the voters demand (and pay pensions).

Even their attempts to show that Illegals are good are PATHETIC.

[Figment]

How much drain on social services, unpaid hospital bills, education bills etc.. ?

[tallyhoe]

In a Pigs A**!!!

[willk]

Google ITEP and Soros. They are not non-partisan. Soros funded? Yahoo had this study as top headline. I’m sure this study will be all over the media and prefreced as non-partisan. Just like any study done by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

[Mike Darancette]

That’s <$200 a year per immigrant local services would be more than that. Obamacare subsidies would eat that in a week.

[tumblindice]

Cost-benefit studies usually include costs, as well as purported benefits.
But not here, even where they attempt to rationalize illegality.

[Gaffer]

A nonprofit and nonpartisan organization about tax policy issues

Simply saying you are nonpartisan does not make it so. Additionally, being nonprofit means a lot of things - it doesn't automatically mean you are unbiased. A little searching on the web will reveal there are liberal aspects to a lot of their 'works'.

As for this piece of work, their "study," it relies a lot on "estimates". My name for "estimates" in a lot of cases is that I call them PDOOMAs (Pulled Directly Out Of My A$$").

Illegals pay some taxes - mainly those which they cannot minimize by maxing out dependents (for income taxes on state and federal taxable income, for example). They, if they have a fake SSN, also have to pay FICA - INSURANCE contributions to Medicare and Social Security - these are inescapable for everyone. They are still largely unwilling to pay any taxes if they can help it.

For the $2 whatever billion they end up getting cornered into paying, even the cost of educating their litters exceeds that. Add the cost of delivering the litters at the local county hospital, the emergency room visits and all that, the $2 whatever billion is far outstripped. This "study" is horse sh!t liberal propaganda, frankly. I won't even get into the social, criminal and national sovereignty impacts they inflict. Just more liberal trash under the guise of responsible scholarship.

[Riflema]

I call BS. I read their report. They assume an average family with 2 kids earning $29,700. According to TurboTax 2014, they'd receive $6,781 in rebates from uncle sugar. Let's be generous and say they pay FICA on the whole thing, reduces it by $2,213. If they spend it all on taxable items at 5% sales tax, that's another $1,485. So in actual financial terms they're still netting $3,083.

And then there's non-cash benefits: Section 8 housing, TANF, WIC, obamacare and the rest. Does this lefty think tank think we're all stupid???(don't answer that)

I sent this analysis to a bunch of these people, if I ever hear back I'll be happy to share.