10-28-2016, 12:12 PM
(10-28-2016, 12:05 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You'd be correct only if the legal resident didn't also pay the exact same taxes in addition to federal and state income taxes. But they do so you're not. It's quite simple;
Legal resident pays: Federal income tax, state tax, sales tax, rental income (or property tax if they own a home)
Illegal resident pays: sales tax, rental income
Not a net positive anyway you try and slice it.
Actually I have corrected my post to show that illegals do pay federal income tax.
And it is a net positive if they pay more in sales tax than we lose in federal income tax. Losing 1700 in federal income tax but gaining 2500 in sales tax is a net positive.
Your math is based on the assumption that there would be a legal taxpayer created to replace every illegal who is deported. It doesn't work that way.
