The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector has done an in-depth analysis of the financial costs of illegal immigration to the U.S. taxpayer. This is a long article with many details, but the bottom line is that many of the illegals in the country now, who would be made into permanent citizens through the amnesty bill, are a net drain on the rest of the country. The math is relatively straightforward. The illegals who we are talking about are often high school drop outs with few marketable skills and little education. And interestingly, the fact that they are working most of the time makes no difference in the overall picture. The problem is that the jobs which illegals are likely to have are low skill and thus low paying ones. And because of the nature of the jobs which illegals are likely to have given their low educational levels, they pay much lower levels of taxes back into the system. In fact, according to Rector's analysis, the average illegal will take out nearly twenty thousand more than they put into the system, creating a huge fiscal deficit which will be felt for decades to come. Read it yourself to see the devastating impact which is to come on our nation and your pocketbook.
The net fiscal deficit of a household equals the cost of immediate benefits and services received minus taxes paid. As Chart 5 shows, if the costs of direct and means-tested benefits, education, and population-based services were counted, the average low-skill household had a fiscal deficit of $19,588 (expenditures of $30,160 minus $10,573 in taxes).
At $19,588, the average annual fiscal deficit for low-skill immigrant households was nearly twice the amount of taxes paid. In order for the average low-skill household to be fiscally solvent (taxes paid equaling immediate benefits received), it would be necessary to eliminate all Social Security and Medicare, all means-tested welfare, and to cut expenditures on public education roughly in half
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