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    Obama Amnesty Plan Will Cost Taxpayers Trillions

    Monday, 01 December 2014

    Obama Amnesty Plan Will Cost Taxpayers Trillions

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    A researcher from the influential Heritage Foundation estimates that the cost to U.S. taxpayers of President Obama’s pending grant of amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants will be “around $2 trillion.”

    So said Robert Rector, senior research fellow in the Domestic Policy Studies Department at the Heritage Foundation, in a November 24 interview with Breitbart News. “The net cost — which is total benefits minus total benefits paid in — of the amnesty recipients I estimate will be around $2 trillion over the course of their lifetime,” said Rector. He added, “What [Obama] is doing is he is putting these 4 million people — who on average have a 10th grade education — into the Social Security and Medicare programs.”

    Rector estimates that these illegal immigrants who will be protected from deportation by Obama’s executive actions will, over the course of their lifetimes, receive three dollars’ worth of benefits from government programs such as Social Security and Medicare for every dollar they pay into them.

    The president’s plan, which he unveiled officially during a November 20 nationwide address, uses executive action to grant protection from deportation (amnesty) to those who have been in the United States for more than five years, and to those who have children who are American citizens or legal residents. The children of the latter group are often referred to as “anchor babies,” since children born in the United States to illegal immigrants are granted citizenship.


    Rector noted that once these “anchor baby" children of immigrants granted amnesty reach the age of 21, they will be able to petition to have their parents obtain Permanent Resident Cards (green cards). “After 5 years with a green card status [the amnestied immigrants will be] eligible for all the welfare programs,” he added.

    While those granted amnesty will not immediately be eligible for federal benefits, Rector has projected the long-term cost to taxpayers that will result as these immigrants achieve normalized status over time. “Even if they are waiting 10 or 12 years to get access to these programs, that is still a trillion dollar cost once they begin to get into them,” he said.

    Last year, Rector co-authored (with Dr. Jason Richwine) a special report for the Heritage Foundation entitled, “The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer.” The heavily documented report noted four types of benefits and services that all Americans (and now illegal immigrants granted amnesty) receive, including Direct benefits (Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and workers’ compensation); Means-tested welfare benefits (Medicaid, food stamps, the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit, public housing, Supplemental Security Income, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families); Public education (which costs on average $12,300 per pupil per year); and Population-based services (Police, fire, highways, parks, and similar services, which the National Academy of Sciences has determined will generally have to expand as new immigrants enter a community).

    The report noted that in 2010, the average U.S. household received $31,584 in government benefits and services from one or more of these four categories.

    However, not all Americans receive more in benefits than they pay into the system. Some are “net tax contributors,” while others are what the Rector-Richwine report calls “net tax consumers.” The report offers these statistics to illustrate this point:
    For example, in 2010, in the whole U.S. population, households with college-educated heads, on average, received $24,839 in government benefits while paying $54,089 in taxes. The average college-educated household thus generated a fiscal surplus of $29,250 that government used to finance benefits for other households.

    Those who had not finished high school, in contrast, presented a different result:
    On average, [they] received $46,582 in government benefits while paying only $11,469 in taxes. This generated an average fiscal deficit (benefits received minus taxes paid) of $35,113.

    The relevance of these figures to the amnesty program is that half of illegal immigrant households are headed by an individual with less than a high school education, and another 25 percent of household heads have only a high school diploma.

    Furthermore, notes the report, even legal immigrant households receive significantly more welfare, on average, than U.S.-born households, but not more than U.S.-born households with the same education level. Households headed by poorly educated individuals, “whether immigrant or U.S.-born, receive far more in government benefits than they pay in taxes.”

    The report noted the contrast between legal and illegal immigrants, who presently do not have access to means-tested welfare, Social Security, or Medicare. As Rector stated in his recent interview, however, “After 5 years with a green card status [the amnestied immigrants will be] eligible for all the welfare programs.”

    Even prior to the Obama executive action amnesty, however, and even without access to means-tested welfare, Social Security, or Medicare, illegal immigrants still received government benefits and services. For example, children in illegal immigrant households receive heavily subsidized public education. And the U.S.-born children of these illegal immigrants (those “anchor babies”) “are currently eligible for the full range of government welfare and medical benefits,” noted the Heritage report. Furthermore, continued the report:
    When unlawful immigrants live in a community, they use roads, parks, sewers, police, and fire protection; these services must expand to cover the added population or there will be “congestion” effects that lead to a decline in service quality.

    In 2010, the average unlawful immigrant household received around $24,721 in government benefits and services while paying some $10,334 in taxes. This generated an average annual fiscal deficit (benefits received minus taxes paid) of around $14,387 per household. This cost had to be borne by U.S. taxpayers. Amnesty would provide unlawful households with access to over 80 means-tested welfare programs, Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare. The fiscal deficit for each household would soar.

    “The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer” arrived at a much higher estimate of how much granting amnesty to illegal immigrants will cost U.S. taxpayers than the $2 trillion figure Rector cited in his Breitbart News interview.

    Over their lifetimes, noted the 2013 Rector- Richwine report, the former illegal immigrants who are granted amnesty will receive an estimated $9.4 trillion in combined government benefits and services and pay $3.1 trillion in taxes, producing a lifetime fiscal deficit of $6.3 trillion!

    To put that figure in perspective, as of last June, the Office of Management and Budget estimated that our national debt was $17.6 trillion. A deficit of $6.3 trillion generated by the legalization of illegal immigrants over their lifetimes has the potential to increase the national debt by almost one third, everything else being equal.

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    http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/19626-obama-amnesty-plan-will-cost-taxpayers-trillions?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=20759 37366-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium= email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-2075937366-287785873


    That is "Trillions"

    How much is a trillion dollars?

    Million, billion, trillion … all big numbers. A trillion is just a bigger number, right? True … but it may be bigger than you think. A million is hard enough to imagine, much less a billion. We need some perspective on what these unimaginable numbers really mean.

    Let’s Measure a Trillion in Numbers

    We’ll start simple: how big is a trillion on paper?

    1,000 = one thousand
    1,000,000 = one million
    1,000,000,000 = one billion
    1,000,000,000,000 = one trillion


    A million is equal to a thousand thousands (1,000 x 1,000).
    A billion is equal to a thousand millions (1,000 x 1,000,000).
    A trillion is equal to a thousand billions (1,000 x 1,000,000,000)
    or a million millions (1,000,000 x 1,000,000).

    Let’s Measure a Trillion in Time

    How Long Ago Is a Trillion Seconds?

    If you count backward, then:
    1 million seconds = 12 days ago
    1 billion seconds = 31 years ago
    1 trillion seconds = 30,000 B.C.
    (give or take a decade or two)

    Let’s Measure a Trillion in Height

    How high is a trillion in $1000 bills?

    If you stack a trillion-worth of $1000 bills together, then:
    1 million dollars = 4 inches high
    1 billion dollars = 364 feet high
    1 trillion dollars = 63 miles high
    (give or take a foot or two)
    Note that this is a STACK, not laid end-to-end.

    Let’s Measure a Trillion in Money


    With about 305,000,000 people and 111,000,000 households in the U.S.


    $1 Million is 1¢ per household,
    $1 Billion is $3.28 per person and $9 per household,
    $1 Trillion is $3,280 per person and $9,000 per household
    If a person’s salary is $40,000 per year it would take:


    25 years to earn $1 Million
    25 Thousand years to earn $1 Billion,
    25 Million years to earn $1 Trillion
    If you lived to be 80 years of age, to have:


    $1 Million you would have to save $34 each day of your life,
    $1 Billion you would have to save $34,000 each day of your life,
    $1 Trillion you would have to save $34 Million each day of your life

    And that is 1 Trillion, now picture this, amnesty will cost us in the "Trillions", noone is saying how many Trillions are they!!! Only that it will be in the "Trillions"!!!!



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    House G.O.P. May Cast Symbolic Vote on Immigration

    By ASHLEY PARKER and JEREMY W. PETERSDEC. 2, 2014

    Continue reading the main story


    WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday emerged from a closed-door meeting determined to avoid a government shutdown.

    The lawmakers began coalescing around a two-part plan that would allow a symbolic vote to show their frustration with President Obama’s executive action on immigration, before funding the government ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline. The proposal, presented by Speaker John A. Boehner, first calls for House Republicans to vote on a resolution proposed by Representative Ted Yoho, Republican of Florida, that says that the president does not have the power to take the executive action he took last month.

    The resolution, however, would largely be a way for House Republicans to express their displeasure with the president’s immigration action. Mr. Yoho said that his measure would be a largely “symbolic message” if Senate Democrats do not take up his resolution, which they are unlikely to do.

    “The simplest way this would work is, it will bring a stop to the action that the president wants,” Mr. Yoho said. “He talks about how he has a pen and a phone. This will take the ink out of the pen.”

    video at link below:
    The demographics of America’s undocumented immigrants, more than half of whom have been in the United States for more than 10 years and nearly a third of whom own homes.
    Video by Emily B. Hager, Natalia V. Osipova and Aaron Byrd on Publish Date November 20, 2014. Photo by Rich Addicks for The New York Times.

    A vote is expected as early as Thursday, said a Republican leadership aide.

    Then, House Republicans would vote next week on what has become known as a “cromnibus” bill to finance the government. The legislation would fund almost all of the government through September 2015, but use a short-term measure known as a continuing resolution to finance the Department of Homeland Security, the agency primarily responsible for overseeing the administration’s immigration policy, into March of next year.

    “What’s being put together is an omnibus of the 11 bills, with the exception of the Homeland Security Department, which would be continued on a continuing resolution until sometime in March,” said Representative Harold Rogers, Republican of Kentucky, and the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. “We don’t have much choice.”

    At that point, Republicans will control both chambers of Congress, and they believe that they will have more leverage in negotiations with Mr. Obama.

    A complicating factor, however, is that the primary agency responsible for carrying out the president’s executive action is United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is financed entirely through fees collected from immigration applications and therefore cannot be defunded in the appropriations process.

    Republicans seemed to acknowledge that there was little they could do to stop the president, no matter how loudly they protest. Speaking after the meeting, Mr. Boehner said his conference seemed to realize that there was only so much they could do until January, when Republicans would control both chambers of Congress. “I think they understand that it’s going to be difficult to take meaningful action as long as we have Democratic control in the Senate,” Mr. Boehner said.

    Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, said that short of going to court — still an option that Republicans are considering — there was not much they could do.

    Continue reading the main story

    “We are not going to shut down the government again,” he said. “There is no doubt we are in a box, in a tough position here.”


    The vote on the spending bill will be a major test for Mr. Boehner and his new leadership team. Some conservatives will most likely vote against it because they believe it does not go far enough. The speaker and his allies have been working to ensure that the budget can pass — a vote that would show Mr. Boehner is able to manage and lead the far-right end of his conference.

    On Tuesday, Mr. Boehner made sure to voice his criticism and disapproval over Mr. Obama’s recent action, which could allow as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants already in the country to live and work without threat of deportation.

    The president’s “decision to take unilateral action on immigration — action he himself said exceeded his authority — makes it harder for the American people and their elected representatives to trust his word on any issue,” Mr. Boehner said. “We’re looking at a variety of options, both for right now and when Republicans control both houses of Congress next year.”

    Many of the more conservative House members have been pushing for a more antagonistic response to the president, like a censure vote.

    Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, and a vocal opponent of any immigration overhaul, said he was hoping to rally Republicans behind his plan to cut off funding for the Department of Homeland Security in this year’s spending fight.

    “This is the time to fight, this is the ground to fight on, and I’m a little bit amazed that that isn’t more clear to more people,” Mr. King said. “I will not vote to fund the president’s lawless unconstitutional act, and they should not be asking members to do so.”

    But Republicans Tuesday for the most part said that that would not happen.

    “He just asked that everybody act responsibly,” Representative John L. Mica, Republican of Florida, said in describing what the speaker told his members.

    Representative Peter King, Republican of New York, said that a “solid majority” of the Republican conference supported the speaker. “No one spoke in favor of a shutdown,” he said.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/us/house-gop-weighs-symbolic-immigration-vote-in-plan-to-avoid-shutdown.html?smid=go-share&_r=0

    Hmmm we shall see if "everyone acts responsibly". In my opinion. they are all prostitutes to the Corporations. and they don't work for the American People..But, and that is a big BUT, time will tell come Thursday, we will then see or have our answer!!!

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    Boehner Negotiates Terms of Surrender to King Barack's Executive Amnesty



    by Matthew Boyle 2 Dec 2014, 10:13 AM PDT 92 post a comment
    Republicans in Washington, under the tutelage of House Speaker John Boehner, are planning a full-scale cave to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, by aiming to fund Obama’s immigration action in full this week.

    Boehner on Tuesday pitched colleagues on a plan that utilizes bills from the reliably conservative Reps. Ted Yoho (R-FL) and Tom Price (R-GA), but ultimately fully funds Obama’s executive amnesty until at least March—and then will likely do so at that point in time as well

    The government funding portion would keep most of the government open until September 2015 but would only supply monies to the Department of Homeland Security until March, Politico’s John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman note in a Tuesday piece.

    Current government funding runs out on Dec. 11, so to avoid a government shutdown before Christmas, Congress has to do something soon. But conservative-movement leaders say the forthcoming plan from Boehner and the other members of GOP leadership (including Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise) using Yoho and Price is a phony, toothless battle.

    “A House vote on the Yoho bill would be purely symbolic, since it has no chance of being brought up in the Senate,” Rosemary Jenks, NumbersUSA’s director of government relations, told Breitbart News. “Americans expect Congress to take effective action to stop Obama's lawless amnesty, not only to protect their jobs and wages, but also to protect the Constitution of the United States. Defunding the amnesty is the only way to stop it.”

    Daniel Horowitz, the senior editor of the Conservative Review, added that this plan is a “joke” and Boehner knows it.

    "Leadership’s attempt to sugar-coat their failure to address Obama’s amnesty in the CROmnibus, is a toothless, stand-alone bill that will never force the issue, and they know it,” Horowitz said. “Any bill that does not condition the funding for the immigration agencies to a rider defunding Obama’s amnesty is a joke.”

    Horowitz added that Boehner’s buddies including House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) have misrepresented this issue to conservatives throughout this process, so no Republican House members should trust him now. Rogers specifically attempted to tell Republicans in Congress—and the American people—that Congress can’t block funding for Obama’s executive amnesty using the appropriations process, something the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) thoroughly refuted last week.

    Rogers is in serious trouble in his district in Kentucky, as Tea Party leaders are searching for a primary challenger to him as a result of all this. Breitbart News broke that story, then the New York Times highlighted it after a Breitbart News investigation into how Rogers’ campaign contributor defense contractor General Dynamics is likely to financially benefit from Obama’s executive amnesty. General Dynamics is in the running to get the federal government contract to print the work permits and other documents Obama wants to give to millions of illegal aliens under the executive amnesty order, and a top company official said the firm expects to print the documents should it get the contract at a facility in Rogers’ district in Corbin, Kentucky. Horowitz says:

    First Boehner and his bootlickers tried to tell us they couldn’t defund Obama’s amnesty. Now, they are making it clear that they won’t defund it. In most aspects of life, there are cant’s and there are won'ts. When it comes to Republican leaders defunding amnesty, we are clearly dealing with the latter. Republicans should never fund any aspect of government with an Omnibus, aside from national security-related agencies. This is not just about immigration. Obama is planning to destroy our manufacturing base with administrative energy regulations. Should we cede our power of the purse on those issues for another 10 months?

    Because CRS explicitly laid out how Congress can stop Obama’s executive amnesty by blocking its funding, Horowitz said that any member who votes for this Yoho-Price plan is “complicit” in Obama’s amnesty.

    "Any conservative who falls for this ploy is just as complicit in Obama’s amnesty as John Boehner and leadership,” Horowitz said.

    Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton agrees that any member who votes for Obama’s amnesty funding is complicit:

    Any member of Congress who funds Obama’s lawlessness is complicit in it. Congress has a positive moral obligation to cut off funds for the president’s outlaw immigration policies. Anything short of a funding cut-off may make the Washington establishment happy but is an affront to voters who know better. Approving tax money for illegal amnesty and Obama’s abuse of power while saying you’re against it sounds like a Gruber talking point. That the idea of funding Obama’s amnesty is even being broached makes Republican fulminations against Obama’s unconstitutional actions seem like a joke. But voters won’t be amused.

    Many other conservative leaders are furious that Boehner would go to the mat, as he is doing, to back up Obama’s amnesty with funding.

    “Americans recognize a show-vote when they see it, and the Yoho bill does nothing more than say President Obama cannot do what he did last month, last year, and the year before,” Glyn Wright, the executive director of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, said in an email to Breitbart News. “President Obama is the most lawless president this country has ever seen, and he will continue to rule by executive fiat until Congress cuts off his funding.”

    George Rasley, the editor of Richard Viguerie’s ConservativeHQ, told Breitbart News that this show vote smacks of what Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions and now former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor have tried to sneak past members on blocking Obamacare funding and on slipping amnesty into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Rasley and others like Horowitz in a post on Conservative Review have compared what Boehner is doing now to what disgraced Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber did to slip Obamacare into law.

    “This is the same kind of phony meaningless vote that House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions and former Majority Leader Eric Cantor tried to pull earlier this year on defunding Obamacare and on amnesty,” Rasley said in an email. “You'd think after Cantor's defeat House Republican leaders would get the message that Jonathan Gruber was wrong and that grassroots voters aren't as dumb as Capitol Hill insiders think they are.”

    In a statement in response to Obama’s executive amnesty announcement a couple weeks ago, incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said that the House must lead to pass a bill that blocks funding for Obama’s executive amnesty:

    The House should send the Senate a government funding bill which ensures no funds can be spent for this unlawful purpose. If [Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid’s Senate Democrats vote to surrender their own institution to an imperial dictate and block the measure, then the House should send a short-term funding measure so the new GOP majority can be sworn in and pass a funding bill with the needed language.

    Others, such as Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Mike Crapo (R-ID), David Vitter (R-LA) and likely-soon-to-be Louisiana U.S. Senator-elect Bill Cassidy (should incumbent Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) lose as she is expected to), have backed Sessions’ plan. Tea Party grassroots warriors Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) all back the plan to block funding for Obama’s amnesty, too.

    During a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley on which Breitbart News accompanied them the day after Obama’s amnesty announcement, Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Steve King (R-IA) called on the American people to light up the phone lines in Congress to stop the GOP establishment from passing something like the current GOP leadership Yoho-Price plan.

    “Congressman King and I were very concerned for people across the United States about whether anyone was pushing back,” Bachmann told Breitbart News while looking across the Rio Grande river into Mexico. “So that’s why we’re meeting with the Border Patrol but also we want to let the American people know that yes we are pushing back but we can’t do it alone. We need them.”

    Bachmann and King are leading a rally on Capitol Hill on Wednesday at noon, and are asking Americans to pressure their members of Congress to block efforts like this to cave to Obama’s amnesty.

    “It was profoundly powerful when the American people did it with Obamacare, and nothing scares politicians more than seeing the whites of their constituents’ eyes,” Bachmann said of the Dec. 3 rally on the U.S. Capitol steps and efforts to have people melt the phone lines. She adds:
    We want real people to come in and demand of their U.S. senators and demand of their representatives: Are you going to vote to defund Obama’s illegal amnesty? We’re going to have a Wall of Fame and Wall of Shame on who’s going to vote which way. We’re asking people to melt the phone lines. It doesn’t do a lot of good to call now because Congress is virtually shut down for the next week. But from Dec. 1 to Dec. 12, that’s our window of opportunity. I really think we can put the pressure on Republicans to pass a bill to defund.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/02/Boehner-Negotiates-Terms-Of-Surrender-To-King-Barack-s-Executive-Amnesty

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    The True Cost of Legalizing Illegal Immigrants

    One expert contends that legalizing illegal immigrants will cost the U.S. trillions of dollars over their life spans


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    Dec. 6, 2014 12:19 a.m. ET

    That “giant sucking sound” is back, although it’s not the same one heard by third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1992, who said it would result from U.S. jobs whooshing into Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement. President Obama’s executive action to provisionally legalize five million international scofflaws who have been hiding out here for five to 10 years will have tax benefits flying out of Treasury’s bronze front doors to this newly minted quasi-citizenry—most immediately in the form of Earned Income Tax Credits and, longer-term, via every entitlement benefit on the table, including Social Security.

    All this assumes that our uninvited guests, 60% of whom drifted over from Mexico, reveal themselves to the federal government. The legalization process, which begins in mid-2015, sounds intimidating. According to the White House: “Undocumented immigrants must come forward and register, submit biometric data, pass criminal background and national security checks, and pay fees and penalties before they will be eligible for a provisional legal status.” How would you like to go through that for the privilege of filing taxes the proper way? But the prospect of getting the EITC right away might do the trick. Illegal aliens, it turns out, love to receive tax credits, which lured many of them to the U.S. in the first place. But more on this later.

    Several studies from pro-immigrant groups and the administration claim that both federal and state tax receipts will rise when shadow workers step into the light and begin paying federal and state taxes on incomes they have been receiving under the table, as day laborers or independent contractors. None of those studies look at the costs these immigrants impose on the nation.The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector, who’s been conducting cost/benefit analyses of immigrants for years, estimates that, in 2010, the average outlaw immigrant family got $24,721 in government benefits and services, including public schooling for their children, while paying an average $10,334 in taxes.

    SOME UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS already fill out tax forms—and get some tax benefits in exchange if they have children. How is this possible? In the U.S., anyone without a proper Social Security number is prohibited by law from taking a job. But anyone who realizes income, from the Godfather down to the illegal-alien gardener, must report it to the Internal Revenue Service. To expedite this, the IRS gives unauthorized workers an individual taxpayer identification number. And because of a loophole in tax law, persons who file an ITIN can claim child tax credits. A July 7, 2011, study by the Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration found that 2.3 million ITIN filers claimed child tax credits totaling $4.2 billion in 2010. That compares with 796,000 ITIN filers claiming $924 million in 2005. The inspector general’s conclusion: “The payment of federal funds through this tax benefit appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the United States without authorization, which contradicts federal law and policy to remove such incentives.”

    Rector predicts that Obama’s executive order will cost U.S. taxpayers an extra $4 billion a year in EITC to provisionally legitimized aliens. This figure will exceed their FICA tax payments. Over their lifetimes, these provisional legal aliens will receive more than $9.4 trillionin government benefits, while paying about $3.1 trillion in taxes, based on an earlier study by Rector. Eventually, that sucking sound will become a roar.

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