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(10-28-2016, 12:12 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 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.

Except you forgot to mention that then you're losing the money they spend on things like educating their children, giving them healthcare, paying the salaries of the police/EMT/firefighters/etc who work their neighborhoods, repairing the roads they drive on, etc, etc.

That's why normal citizens pay all that tax, to pay for it. So if you're only getting $2,500 instead of the $4,200 in your example, you're falling short $1,700 that you'll then need to either increase the taxload of your fully paying citizens, reduce the services you offer, or provide insufficient services.


YOUR math is based on the assumption that the tax dollars aren't spent on the illegal immigrants at all, so that anything they provide is a net positive. It doesn't work that way.