dkahn400 wrote:
I was about to argue against you but some preliminary research
indicates the situation is far more complex than I had realised, and
you may well be right. Although illegal immigrants provide a huge pool
of cheap labour, and mainly in jobs that other people don't want to
do, the associated costs exceed the benefit to the economy. A net
deficit to the federal budget of $2,700 per illegal household in 2002
according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
<http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscal.html>.
Wait a minute...
I just started to grasp Table A in the 'A Complex Fiscal Picture'
section. The two 'simulations' that show guesstimate figures for
what taxes v. costs would be assuming that illegals did things the
same as legals did --- how come those appear to show that legal
immigrants are far more of a drain than illegals? **
I.e., drains of $6022 and $7668 per household rather than the $2736
per household for illegals?
Maybe we should make all immigrants do it illegally.
Tom Liotta
** (Yes, I read the paragraphs after, so I know how they got that
idea. But if it's true...?)
