Thread: Study: Md. immigrants pay $275M in taxes

APRIL 18, 2011

Study: Md. immigrants pay $275M in taxes
Illegal immigrants in Maryland will pay $275 million in state and local taxes this year, according to a study released Monday by a Washington group that advocates for immigrants. The report ranks Maryland as the 11th-highest state in the nation in collecting tax receipts from unauthorized immigrants.

Maryland comes in after California, Florida and New York but ahead of Nevada and New Mexico. The state will collect $76 million in state income taxes, $22 million in property taxes and $177 million in sales taxes in the 2010 tax year, according to the Immigration Policy Center study.

The report’s authors acknowledge that “it is difficult to know precisely how much these families pay in taxes, because the spending and income behavior of these families is not as well documented as is the case for U.S. citizens.â€

how much will they take back in free education, going to the ER for non emergency's, incarceration, and federal monies like welfare and WIC, not to mention food stamps from the state

It is hard for me to believe that they pay this much in taxes

I'm willing to bet that tourists pay more than $177 million in sales tax and they don't suck at the public teat while doing so.

The point of this article is???