Thread: Cost of amnesty - far more than Iraq war!!!

The cost for Iraq is approaching $500 billion after ~4 years (see below).

Compare this to the expected costs of amnesty and providing benefits to illegal households without high school education. According to the Rector report, the price tag would be around $400 billion PER YEAR (for 17 million households) or 4 TRILLION over 10 years. And, his cost projections were conservative as they did not include financing the national debt, etc. And, it does not include future chain migration, new births, or new guest workers and their families.

The Iraq war will end at some point, but amnesty is forever.

Ask the Democrats how they plan to pay for this without drastically increasing taxes or further exploding our national debt. Are they going to get the Chamber of Commerce to take their enormous caches, like the $72 million they spent last on lobbying on immigration reform, and instead pay for health insurance for the guest workers of their affiliate businesses?

PAYGO???? I guess they will have to throw this concept out the window!!!!





http://costofwar.com/numbers.html

Last Revised: February, 2007

The Cost of Iraq War calculator is set to reach $456 billion September 30, 2007, the end of fiscal year 2007. The Cost of Iraq War calculator is occasionally reset based on new information and new allocations of funding. The numbers include military and non-military spending, such as reconstruction. Spending only includes incremental costs, additional funds that are expended due to the war. For example, soldiers' regular pay is not included, but combat pay is included. Potential future costs, such as future medical care for soldiers and veterans wounded in the war, are not included. It is also not clear whether the current funding will cover all military wear and tear. It also does not account for the Iraq War being deficit-financed and that taxpayers will need to make additional interest payments on the national debt due to those deficits.

Yeah, so much for "Pay As You Go". That's what to hit new Dem members and Blue Dogs with--what hypocrisy!!!