Posted on 08/29/2024 9:14:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the things that riles even those Americans who aren’t politically inclined is seeing their tax dollars pay for illegal aliens’ education, housing, food, and medical care. When they raise these concerns, though, they’re immediately told, “quit yer whining” because even illegal aliens pay taxes and buy American products. The implication is that the illegal aliens are paying their way. This is a lie.
According to leftist sites, illegal aliens are a net good to the economy. Not only do “they do the jobs Americans won’t do,” but they are also good taxpayers. According to a July report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, illegal aliens pay lots of taxes, despite being barred from accessing some of those programs into which they’re paying:
- Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments.
- Undocumented immigrants paid federal, state, and local taxes of $8,889 per person in 2022. In other words, for every 1 million undocumented immigrants who reside in the country, public services receive $8.9 billion in additional tax revenue.
- More than a third of the tax dollars paid by undocumented immigrants go toward payroll taxes dedicated to funding programs that these workers are barred from accessing. Undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.
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- Income tax payments by undocumented immigrants are affected by laws that require them to pay more than otherwise similarly situated U.S. citizens. Undocumented immigrants are often barred from receiving meaningful tax credits and sometimes do not claim refunds they are owed due to lack of awareness, concern about their immigration status,
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Well, maybe not. The problem is that they’re taking way more than they’re giving. Per the New York Post:
The migrant crisis is more costly than Americans realize.
Last year, US taxpayers shelled out some $150 billion in government services and support to help the 20 million illegal migrants in the country, according to a study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
And most of the cost is being borne by state and local governments.
The bassturds definitely aren’t paying taxes when you check out the brand new vehicles they are driving around. El Grande SUVs. Cadillacs and such.
I’m pretty sure that, for Democrats, if an illegal immigrant buys a pack of cigarettes, a gallon of gas, or a bottle of wine, they are “paying taxes”.
I don’t see how people with no social security number are casually filing tax forms with the IRS. I don’t believe that happens with illegal aliens except in the rarest of cases.
face it American citizen...you gave the entire United States of America away to the cult of personality and now the chickens who got your votes are laying goose eggs on everything you THOUGHT only American citizens would inherit because you were too busy to notice that elections DO have consequences and now EVERYONE is suffering the consequences. thank you.
Government maffs.... it is an “investment.”
I don't either. They've blown off all the other laws, why not this one? All they pay are sales taxes.
You watch, the illegals apologists will say that illegals pay property taxes like everyone else even if they rent, because it's folded into the cost of housing.
BTTT
The just counter with sales taxes and SSI taxes if the employer is legit.
“Undocumented immigrants paid federal, state, and local taxes of $8,889 per person in 2022”
I wonder how that was calculated. Do people check the box “Illegal invader” when they file taxes?
I am sure we can find Americans willing to rape, murder extort, steal and terrorize their fellow Americans as long as they are released with out bail like the illegals are.
It most likely wasn’t calculated, and came from the IMCU (Institute for Making Crap Up).
I just watched the 1948 movie “Apartment for Peggy.” The protagonist Peggy is always making up statistics for the silliest and most outlandish things. She finds she can throw out numbers and nobody questions here on them. Definitely sounds like this case.
Never saw that movie, need to add that to my list. These days we just get an “expert” to spout some numbers or an opinion and the New York Times and Washington Post parade it as gospel.
Without a SSN how do you pay taxes??
nope! They cost WAY MORE than that=- likely over $1 TRILLION dollars per year now when ALL the costs, direct costs and indirect costs associated with illegal activity is added up!
Decades ago the estimate was between $400 billion and $600 billion- We have way more illegals now, and way more violent criminal illegals than we had decades ago- the figure today for the cost would very likely be near or over $1 Trillion Dollars
I have a breakdown of some of those costs in my profile page from decades ago, and they list just some of the indirect costs. indirect costs would be something along the lines of a family who loses their bread winner to an illegal alien, the family needs therapy, has to pay the funeral costs, has to pay lawyers to try to sue, has to search for work, pay cabs, buy meals o n the road as they are going through the hell of trying to start over without their loved one etc- many other examples of indirect costs can be tabulated as well-
I did payrolls for YEARS. Weekly payroll for 750 persons at one company alone. NO ADP. ALL in house.
EXAMPLE:
New employee fills out W-4 card & claims 8 exemptions.
HE is SINGLE & has no kids. HE is Sending most of his PAYCHECK to MEXICO.
I call the Ranch manager & ask questions.
Ranch manager refuses to believe that IRS doesn’t allow “DEPENDENTS in MEXICO’ to count. LONG ARGUMENT.
I tell him the kid is not getting a paycheck UNTIL I get a W-4 stating he is single -1 dependent. We argue some more. That only makes me look at EVERY W-4 at that ranch location-(Egg RANCHES). I tell the ranch manager to get NEW W-4’s for about 5 others. HE isn’t happy with me. I tell my BOSS what is happening. THEY DO NOT need the IRS ATTENTION, so I WIN.
When the people fill out a W-4 with a high number of “dependents-—there are NO FED OR STATE INCOME TAXES DEDUCTED. IF the W-4 says 9 or more dependents, the law REQUIRES that I send a copy of that W-4 directly to the IRS.
DO NOT give me the BS story that they pay INCOME TAXES, because most of them do NOT do so.
THEY DO NOT BELONG ON THESE PAYROLLS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
This was in the 1070’s, but I am sure in agricultural situations-—it is still rampant.
oh, and illegals AND immigrants do not for the most part come here to work- that is a lie- nearly 70% of illegals and immigrants in some areas are on welfare- and stay on welfare for life=- why work when the gov will give them monthly checks- bonus checks for how many children they have, a place to live for very little $$, free education, health care- etc- and now they wanna give them %% as loans too?
THEY DO NOT GET PAID ENOUGH TO REACH THAT NUMBER.
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