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Originally Posted by kane
Here are some other staggering stats taken from wikipedia:
"Annually the cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion dollars, which includes $350 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $500 million in welfare and food stamps allocations. Twenty-four percent of the County?s total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States." He referred to the costs as "catastrophic" for taxpayers. He estimated that the total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion a year, excluding education"
1 billion per year just for 1 county . . . Imagine how much it must cost for the entire states of California a Arizona |
That's funny because those figures don't tell you how much money "illegals" bring in through things like sales tax and just plain old buying shit at the local stores. In fact California, Florida, Texas, and many other states with large immigrant populations would be FUCKED if it weren't for the "illegals" money. When I say FUCKED I mean it. The sates literally would not be able to make it through the year.
"According to the Comptrollers? office, state and local governments spent $1.16 billion to provide services like education, health care and safety, but raised an estimated $1.58 billion in tax revenues. Based on the data, the
Texas taxpayer made a $424.7 million profit on its illegal immigrant population in 2006."
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/mar...pite-rhetoric/
So yeah illegals cost a bunch of money but they bring MORE money in than they take out. If you were really looking for a solution and not just succumbing to xenophobic impulses you would realize that the best course of action would be to tax the shit out of the immigrant population and make even more of a profit!