Re: Demographics and Voting
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questioning the narrative
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Date: July 30, 2016 08:56PM
> Illegals contribute more to society and the
> economy in terms of taxes paid and output created
> than they take out in terms of welfare and other
> services consumed. In a nutshell, it is a widely
> accepted fact that they are a net positive in
> society.
Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level. The bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local governments.
The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117. The fiscal impact per household varies considerably because the greatest share of the burden falls on state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on the size of the illegal alien population in that locality.
Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and local governments.
At the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal aliens. At the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegal immigration is recouped through taxes collected from illegal aliens.
Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury.
Now if you go by the Heritage foundation, they claim the average illegal family gets about 24k in benefits (including education and healthcare costs from emergency rooms), but pays about 10k in taxes. To put it in cumulative numbers, ITEP estimated that Illegal families pay around 24 billion total in taxes, 12 billion in income and 12 billion in state/local/property/sales taxes.