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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Illegal Immigration: Cheap Labor Isn't Cheap


Someone has finally calculated the cost to the taxpayer of allowing chaos at our national border.

From WorldNetDaily:

A new study by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector found a household headed by an individual without a high school education, including about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.

Over the course of the household's lifetime that tax burden translates to $1.1 million.

'Would any of us buy shares in a company that we knew would produce a loss of a million dollars a share,' asks Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, in response to the study. 'Cheap labor is not cheap at the cost of over a million dollars per head of household.'

Rector's study, 'The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer,' examines the economics of the 17.7 million American households made up of people without a high-school degree. Using numbers from the Census Bureau, the Congressional Research Service, the Bureau of Labor Standards and other government agencies, Rector determined what they earn, what they spend and what they receive in government services.


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