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Are you suggesting we should accept illegal immigration to the tune of billions of tax dollars annually, simply because we are squandering billions in Iraq? Is that actually your justification for the fleecing of America? Why not fry as many fish as possible, regardless of size? I can think of myriad good uses for the money we are wasting on illegal aliens and their estimated 4+ million anchors.
No, I'm suggesting that the complaints over the "deep" cost to the US taxpayer are just crocodile tears.
I guarantee you that cost is like the last thing on anyone's mind here. If the net cost were $2 million/year instead of $20 billion, the exact same people would be saying the exact same things.
No, I'm suggesting that the complaints over the "deep" cost to the US taxpayer are just crocodile tears.
I guarantee you that cost is like the last thing on anyone's mind here. If the net cost were $2 million/year instead of $20 billion, the exact same people would be saying the exact same things.
They are saying those things even when most economists state they are a net benefit to our society. IT'S SIMPLE COMMON SENSE!
CIS, which is known to be a source of questionable reliability, puts the NET taxpayer cost at $10-30 billion (the high end of that range is "if there was an amnesty for illegal aliens" - and note, this is net cost, at all levels (federal, state, local)).
Source: The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget | Center for Immigration Studies (http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec..HTML%20 - broken link)
As a comparison, the US Army spends $20 billion per year JUST ON AIR CONDITIONING in Iraq.
No, I'm suggesting that the complaints over the "deep" cost to the US taxpayer are just crocodile tears.
I guarantee you that cost is like the last thing on anyone's mind here. If the net cost were $2 million/year instead of $20 billion, the exact same people would be saying the exact same things.
The costs of illegals -- like you have pointed out over and over at least 1/3 of the illegals are doing nothing but living off welfare handouts here, are very much on my mind.
As a taxpayer, my personal costs of their free schools, free housing, free county hospital are enormous and going up.
By your own admission (something you were harping on in fact) a third of illegals are living off the taxpayers directly. And that third of illlegals represent the females who have already begun giving birth here and of course another third representing the dead beat fathers who keep them knocked up but fail to provide financial support for them.
That 2/3 of illegals would be an excellent starting point for deportations.
Oh and I forgot to mention -- also the cost of government services for the millions of displaced American workers and those Americans never being given a chance here in their own country.
No, I'm suggesting that the complaints over the "deep" cost to the US taxpayer are just crocodile tears.
I guarantee you that cost is like the last thing on anyone's mind here. If the net cost were $2 million/year instead of $20 billion, the exact same people would be saying the exact same things.
Sorry, but it IS possible to oppose ALL unnecessary spending, which includes illegal immigration. However, this isn't the forum for the discussion of those topics.
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