NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- The tax system collects its due, even from a class of workers with little likelihood of claiming a refund and no hope of drawing a Social Security check.
Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it.
But the latest figures available indicate it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year. One rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year. - CNN
Let's see...They put in, but they don't take out. And they pay sales tax on their purchases, just like everyone else. Like Everett Dirkson allegedly said, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon, you're talking about a lot of money."
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How much money is spent by taxpayers to support illegals? Hosptials, schools, roads, lost jobs to US citizens, and on and on?
But I do not blame the illegals. I do blame the government that does not follow it's own laws by cracking down on the employers who hire them. Without jobs, most illegals would not be here in the first place.
But the latest figures available indicate it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year. One rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year.
I'm wondering how they got Social Security numbers.
However it nets out, they have made a basic decision that they are better off here than they were where they came from.
I agree with Dwight. The laws are already in place for employers, but are not enforced. In the construction trades I deal with, the wages now equal those of anyone else doing the same work. And the taxes are not substantial when you claim the maximum number of dependents, as is customary (according to my concrete contractor).
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I don't know much about the Center for Immigration Studies. The link claims that "illegal households created a net fiscal deficit at the federal level of more than $10 billion in 2002."
2002 is getting kind of historical! I wonder where the numbers stand now?
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