Observation of the Day!
This observation is for all of my illegal immigrant bashing friends. I repeat my position. Build a fence, get an ID system that works and punish employers in the future if they hire illegals. This will stop or at least hinder future illegals. For the 12 million illegals who are already here, amnesty and a path to citizenship. Mass deportation is not practical and the fact that it will cost citizen tax payers money are good reasons to justify my solution to the problem. There is a real benefit to my plan because America has a dirty little secret that gets little publicity.
By Travis Loller, Associated Press
NASHVILLE — The tax system collects its due, even from a class of workers with little likelihood of claiming a refund and no hope of drawing a Social Security check.
Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it. But the latest figures available indicate it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year. One rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year.
Paycheck withholding collects much of the federal tax from illegal workers, just as it does for legal workers.
The Internal Revenue Service doesn't track a worker's immigration status, yet many illegal immigrants fearful of deportation won't risk the government attention that will come from filing a return even if they might qualify for a refund. Economist William Ford of Middle Tennessee State University says there are no firm figures on how many such taxpayers there are.
"The real question is how many of them pay more than they owe. There are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of people in that situation," Ford said.
But some illegal immigrants choose to file taxes and write a check come April 15, using an alternative to the Social Security number offered by the IRS so it can collect income tax from foreign workers.
"It's a mistake to think that no illegal immigrants pay taxes. They definitely do," said Martha Pantoja, who has been helping Hispanic immigrants this tax season as an IRS-certified volunteer tax preparer for the non-profit Nashville Wealth Building Coalition.
The agency estimates that for 2005, the last year for which figures are available, about $9 billion in taxes was paid on about $75 billion in wages from people who filed W2 forms with incorrect or mismatched data, which would include illegal immigrants who drew paychecks under fake names and Social Security numbers.
The impact on Social Security is significant, though, because most of that money is never claimed by the people who pay it but instead helps cover retirement checks to legal workers.
Federal law prohibits paying Social Security to illegal immigrants, but the administration factors in both legal and illegal immigration when projecting the trust fund's long-term solvency.
"Overall, any type of immigration is a net positive to Social Security. The more people working and paying into the system, the better," Hinkle said. "It does help the system remain solvent."
If net immigration is high at 1.3 million people a year, the SSA's combined trust fund would be exhausted in 2043. But the fund runs out four years earlier if annual net immigration amounts to about half that — 472,500 legal immigrants and 250,000 illegal immigrants.
That adds up to roughly $90 billion in federal taxes during they eight-year period.
Ford, of Middle Tennessee State University, said a majority of economists agree that illegal immigrants are a net benefit for the U.S. economy.
He said the tax contributions from illegal immigrants, including sales taxes, property taxes and excise taxes (such as the gas tax), are significant.
He calculates that illegal immigrants contributed $428 billion dollars to the nation's $13.6 trillion gross domestic product in 2006. That number assumes illegal immigrants are 30% less productive than other workers.
Something to think about my friends.
Have a nice day!
Samuel C. Arnold
2 comments:
The taxes paid in to fake stolen Social Security accounts and ITIN's in no way covers the cost to legal tax paying citizens of those 300,000 to 400,000 anchor babies dropped in the U.S. each year, free medical care, free education and food stamps to those jackpot babies, [which by the way are "second hand" benefits to the illegal parent], the cost of jailing or deporting criminal invaders, etc.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, they use far more in services than they might happen to pay into Social Security or pay in federal taxes. The center, citing 2002 data alone, estimated that taxes paid minus services used was $10.4 billion.
Anyone who thinks illegal invaders should collect taxes paid to S.S. condones identity theft.
The American people are sick and tired of the abuse to its citizens through identity theft and Social Security card theft by (mostly Mexican) invaders who assume they have the right to destroy the future job and credit history of our citizens, especially the young who will not know of this fraud until they turn 18 and apply for a job or credit!
This fact just doesn't matter to some people!
Just wait 'till your childs' identity and credit is trashed! Will it matter then?
Veterans Launch National Education Effort on Illegal Immigration
INDIANAPOLIS (April 28, 2008) – Crime, terrorism and dependency on scarce government dollars are some of the major reasons why the nation’s largest veterans organization is concerned about illegal immigration.
“American Legion members have served in the U.S. Armed Forces throughout the world so that Americans can feel safe at home,” said Marty Conatser, national commander. “We have seen Third World countries. We have seen poverty, political instability, disease and war. Today we see the threat that open borders present to our homeland.
“With more than 14,000 posts and 2.7 million members, I am asking Legionnaires everywhere to start the national dialogue that needs to happen now,” Conatser said. “As a nation at war with operatives sworn to kill Americans, our government must shut down our open borders and take decisive action to address a crippling national problem.”
Unlike the "A" in ACLU, the "A" in American Legion actually stands for American!
Read the full story:
http://www.legion.org/vision/currentevents/2008/04/veterans_launch_national_educa.html
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