Jul 03 2007
The True Cost of the Failed Immigration Bill
The Dane links us to a great report by Robert E Rector of the Heritage Foundation, on the true costs of the Shamnesty Immigration Bill that failed in the Senate last week:
Heritage research has shown that low skill immigrants (those without a high school degree) receive, on average, three dollars in government benefits and services for each dollar of taxes they pay. This imbalance imposes a net cost of $89 billion per year on U.S. taxpayers. Over a lifetime, the typical low skill immigrant household will cost taxpayers $1.2 million.[4]
Future taxpayer costs will be increased by policies which increase (1) the number of low skill immigrants entering the U.S., (2) the length of low skill immigrants’ stays in the U.S., or (3) low skill immigrants’ access to government benefits and services. Unfortunately, this is exactly what the Senate immigration bill does:
The bill would triple the flow of low skill chain immigration into the U.S.
- By granting amnesty to at least 12 million illegal immigrants, the bill would greatly lengthen their stay in the U.S., particularly during retirement years.
- The bill would grant illegal immigrants access to Social Security and Medicare benefits and, over time, to more than 60 different federal welfare programs.
- Although the bill does not currently permit Z visa holders to bring spouses and children in from abroad, this would likely be amended at some future point on humanitarian grounds, resulting in another 5 million predominantly low-skill immigrants entering the country.
Heritage research has concluded that the cost of amnesty alone will be $2.6 trillion once the amnesty recipients reach retirement age.
This explains why the White Hoise and the Senate Democrats (and several Republicans) were trying to push this thing through so fast. They didn’t want to give anyone tiime to read it, and do these kind of pencil figures on the cost and impact of shamnesty for 12 to 20 million illegals.
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While not supporting this particular selling of US down the road - I don’t think there is a "good" answer, BTW - I think it is important to point out that Heritage’s analysis is intellectually dishonest.
"low skill immigrants (those without a high school degree) receive, on average, three dollars in government benefits and services for each dollar of taxes they pay." Substitute "American" - or even, incendiarily, "inner city black" - for "immigrants" and the statement remains equally true. The fact is the underclass is buoyed - and to an extent pacified - by these services, which partly makes up for the screwing they take from capitalism. Meanwhile, the rest of the country - including a lot of fat, overpaid asshole exploiters - benefits from slave labor.
And as long as the status quo is maintained, "we" get the cheapest possible slaves because their use of the normal services of the poor is minimized - but of course not eliminated.
We’re screwed. If something isn’t done "we" will slowly degenerate into a lawless muddle where half of the real economy is underground, which will mean the remaining taxpayers will be paying an even larger burden.
If one side prevails and the slaves are sent packing it’ll be good for me now but not later - and it’ll be very bad for the exploiters, as a bonus. It’ll however just put off the inevitable demographic crunch our western "sophistication" is creating for us.
If the other side wins the labor pool will be so diluted we’ll all be slaves - except the exploiters - and the future US won’t be a white - European descended Nation anymore. Then inevitably social inequity will foment mob justice against the exploiter class, and we will either tax them into the same poverty everyone else will be "enjoying" - or this Nation will burn.
Thank you….
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