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    $2.2 trillion illegal alien taxpayer sticker shock

    $2.2 trillion illegal alien taxpayer sticker shock
    2/3 of immigrants cost Americans $22,449 a year, shows new study

    Posted: April 11, 2007
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    WASHINGTON – Someone has finally fixed an approximate taxpayer cost of between 12 million and 15 million illegal aliens residing in the U.S.

    A new study by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector found a household headed by an individual without a high school education, including about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.

    Over the course of the household's lifetime that tax burden translates to $1.1 million.

    If the lower figure of 12 million illegal aliens is used for estimation purposes, the total tax burden translates to $2.2 trillion.

    "Would any of us buy shares in a company that we knew would produce a loss of a million dollars a share," asks Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, in response to the study. "Cheap labor is not cheap at the cost of over a million dollars per head of household."

    Rector's study, "The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer," examines the economics of the 17.7 million American households made up of people without a high-school degree. Using numbers from the Census Bureau, the Congressional Research Service, the Bureau of Labor Standards and other government agencies, Rector determined what they earn, what they spend and what they receive in government services.

    About half of the 17.7 million households studied are illegal aliens. About two-thirds of illegal alien households are headed by someone without a high school degree. Only 10 percent of native-born Americans fit into that category.

    "Over the next ten years the total cost of low-skill households to the taxpayer (immediate benefits minus taxes paid) is likely to be at least $3.9 trillion," Rector writes. "This number would go up significantly if changes in immigration policy lead to substantial increases in the number of low-skill immigrants entering the country and receiving services."


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    I heard a talk radio show discuss this tonight, sorry, forget the station but he was outraged.

    Bet the msm doesn't make a big deal out of it. Afterall, it doesn't appeal to big biz. All they want to report is how great the economy is because of illegal immigration.
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    I wonder how many Border Patrol agents and fencing you could buy with $2.2 TRILLION? But Kennedy and his ilk are always crying about how we could never afford to build the fence because of the exorbitant cost, a couple of billion or so. Heck, with $2.2 TRILLION we could build a gold plated fence with silver plated barbed wire on top, across the entire border with Mexico.
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    The hell with ted the SWIMMER............get these figures to every congressman and senator in both the federal & state.

    Don't give them one fraction of an inch wiggle room!! Let them know that we know exactly what's going on and WE WON'T BE PAYING FOR THIS SHAM.
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    $32,000 times how many now ?

    That’s enough to fund all of Bushes inner demons.

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    The costs are likely to be far greater since the number of illegals is probably more like 30-40 million. Nobody believes the 12 million figure, which has stayed the same for the past few years, even as million more illegals have streamed across our border or gotten lost in the sea of expired visas.

    Our national debt is about $8.8 trillion. We're looking at substantially increasing this debt.

    AND FOR ALL THOSE OUTRAGED BY THE IRAQ WAR, CONSIDER THAT THE COSTS OF AMNESTY WILL FAR EXCEED THOSE INCURRED BY THE WAR, AND THERE WILL BE NO END TO THESE COSTS!

    How can anyone in Washington with more than a pea for a brain ignore such costs? There is no way amnesty would be anything other than a disaster.

    And my Congressman stated that we can't deport people because this would cost $9 billion!!!

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    Geeze, talk about sticker shock, but not really considering the number of illegals here. Perhaps we need to promote this story to the national media. Stories like this will help wake up Americans.
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    This is why I say pressure the Democrats to increase taxes on Corporations to pay for this $2.2 trillion. Actually their taxes need to be increased even more than this, to make up for the wage reductions caused by foreign labor.

    What would happen in reality is if a Congressperson proposed this, Corporations would suddenly stop pushing for amnesty and accept a work place verification system!
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    I hope Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck highlight this story this week. America has to know what a sham this shamnesty would be for the American taxpayer!
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    Quote Originally Posted by reptile09
    I wonder how many Border Patrol agents and fencing you could buy with $2.2 TRILLION? But Kennedy and his ilk are always crying about how we could never afford to build the fence because of the exorbitant cost, a couple of billion or so. Heck, with $2.2 TRILLION we could build a gold plated fence with silver plated barbed wire on top, across the entire border with Mexico.
    Consider THIS!!!

    In just about every piece of "comprehensive immigration" legislation and also amendments, there is always the clause to
    SECURE MEXICO'S SOUTHERN BORDER

    Does anyone wonder why WE, the U.S., should be SECURING MEX SOUTHERN BORDER? All the while being told we canNOT secure our own border?
    Furthermore, why should AMERICAN TAX PAYERS pay for MEX SOUTHERN BORDER?

    I want every senator and rep to EXPLAIN this crap to me, to you, to us
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