The issues that face the Nation

[Belsnickel]

(10-28-2016, 02:37 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 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.

The healthcare is money lost in the private sector. Money spent at the municipal level is generated primarily from property taxes and sales taxes, which they can't avoid. They may not pay the property taxes directly, but they pay them indirectly through their landlords. Money to pay for roads is picked up from vehicle registrations, which they often do pay, just again it is often indirectly, and through gasoline taxes which are unavoidable.

I will say something about an earlier post, though. The whole illegal immigrants having an ITIN is bull shit. More often than not they are using another person's SSN/ITIN to obtain employment and so taxes are being paid in that person's name.