You screwed yourself with that biased article. Literally in the comments:
This statement, "we found that undocumented immigrants nationwide pay on average 8% of their incomes in taxes to state and local governments. In contrast, the top 1% of taxpayers nationwide pay on average just 5.4%." is completely disingenuous. The bulk of that is going to be sales tax, and it is as high as it is primarily because of the preponderance of undocumented immigrants in high sales tax states like California. You would need to compare what someone in the top 1% pays in state and local taxes in a common location.
If illegals were interested in working legally in the US, they would have followed the legal requirements for doing so. This article is just BS. Sure they pay state and local sales tax. A fraction of what they get back in education, social services and healthcare. Besides all the special privileges held out by the pandering politicians to them.
the one important issue that is not talked about is how much it cost we the US TAXPAYER to have them here. it exceeds the 11 billion dollars collected many times over. i've seen figures that show it cost 1/3 of a trillion a year. so the 11 billion collected is a drop in the bucket. funny how these type of figures always seem to be left out of these articles.
More educational information for you...
Federal government data shows that while roughly half of illegal immigrants file federal tax returns, the vast majority of them don’t pay any federal income taxes. Instead, they use these returns to claim refundable tax credits, which are a form of cash welfare. In other words, illegal immigrants mainly use the federal income tax code to collect money from U.S. citizens.
What is the cost of illegal immigration?
Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level. The bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local governments. The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117.
No, I don't like ILLEGALS, because they are ILLEGAL. White, black, hispanic, asian, indian, etc.,
if they are illegal I do not like them. Legal immigrants/immigrant I welcome with open arms.
You embody the average, arrogant, delusional, liberal dolt.
You are just giving opinion no facts
You are saying you think the article is bias--SHOCKING all news now is biased if it does not 100% agree with Trump and his lies. Get your news from Twitter LOL.
You are citing text but you are not giving your sources...so i am supposed to take your undocumented quotes but you rejected the one article i posted as 'biased' and lies.
You are going to call ANYONE republican, democrats, independent--weather they are moderate liberal, even the legitimate conservatives as "LEFT" because that is what ALL Trump True-believers do.
This is some Jim Jones sh*t.
You are entitled to object to immigrants that come here illegally.
For instance i am not thrilled with the ones here who commit violent crimes or repeated crimes--deport them.
But this money argument? LOL, its just a joke.
Yes i am sure you want to deport all the illegal Easter European hotties that come into USA and stay here past the time to go back home...lets send ICE to round them all up those damn models in clubs taking all the good jobs lol. Lets not pretend this is not about Latinos--who arguable are committing crimes.
You would have made a better argument if you stuck to crime which is legitimate and not faux financial burden.
EVEN Fiscal conservatives will debate you on the cost of illegals vs the money they generate for us.
And again i dont think you voted for Trump on financial issue.
He already spent more on security and travel in one month him and his family than the Obamas did for a whole year. Where is your fiscal conservative outrage over this?
I can quote you two articles on this subject but I am not going to bother because you will just scream "bias or fake news'
You can look it up for yourself they are very easy to find multiple articles.
