How the Government Spends Taxpayers Money

[Anonymous]

Buhbye America... Canada will follow soon

How the Government Spends Taxpayers Money
by Phyllis Schlafly

Are you having a hard time paying your bills, making your mortgage payments, or putting your kids through college? You need to know how much of your hard-earned income the government is skimming off and diverting into handouts to immigrants and illegal aliens.

You can read the depressing details in the new 70-page document called "The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration" written by Edwin S. Rubenstein. A Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow with a mile-long scholarly resume, he has been doing financial analysis ever since he directed the studies of government waste for the prestigious Grace Commission of 1984.

The bottom line, which you need to know for your own bottom line, is that U.S. taxpayers are giving more than $9,000 a year in cash or benefits to each immigrant, a third of whom are illegal aliens. That's $36,000 for each immigrant household of four.

Since the U.S. has 37 million immigrants, legal and illegal, the national cost was more than $346 billion last year, which was twice our fiscal deficit. The cost of immigrants is so high because, as Rubenstein writes, "Immigrants are poorer, pay less tax and are more likely to receive public benefits than natives."

Big Brother hasn't told you this bad news, perhaps because the government doesn't want you to know why your paychecks are shortchanged. Even the huge amnesty bill that was defeated last year didn't contain one word about its budgetary consequences.

The financial burden that immigrants impose on education starts with the 3.8 million K-to-12 students enrolled in more-expensive classes for the non-English-speaking. When we add up the costs of hiring specialized teachers, training regular teachers, student identification and assessment, and administration costs, the total amounts to an estimated $1,030 per pupil, or $3.9 billion.

Of the 48.4 million pre-K through 12 public school children, 9.2 million or 19 percent are immigrants or the children of immigrants. In the next few years, immigration will account for virtually all the increase in public school spending.

Look at the $1.5 billion cost of incarcerating 267,000 criminal aliens in federal prisons. That's not the worst of it; prison capacity is limited, so 80,000 to 100,000 other criminal aliens have been prematurely released to prowl our streets.

Criminals also impose heavy private costs on their victims. Rubenstein estimates the losses of income and property, hospital bills, and emotional suffering at $1.6 million per assault- or property-crime offender.

Rubenstein's report includes all sorts of costs that other observers conveniently ignore, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit. EITC gives an average cash payment of $1,700 per year to 1 in 4 immigrant households.

The emergency medical treatment given free to illegal aliens is another enormous cost, causing some hospitals and emergency rooms to close. Emergency means any complaint from hangovers to hangnails, gunshot wounds to AIDS.

Even after some restrictions were imposed in 1996, 24.2 percent of immigrant households receive Medicaid, whereas the figure for native-born Americans is 14.8 percent. Rubenstein calculates that Hispanics account for 19.2 percent of Medicaid enrollment, while they are 13.7 percent of the U.S. population.

The FHA has had a policy of increasing home ownership among low-income immigrants and therefore approved FHA mortgages on homes with a down payment of only $200 to $300 and marginal income. Since mortgagors have so little invested in the house, they can walk away from it when they can't meet the payments, and this has resulted in neighborhoods of abandoned, boarded-up housing.

Refugees are a large and growing fiscal burden because they become immediately eligible for generous taxpayer-paid benefits. Evidence shows they stay dependent on these programs and start chain-migrating relatives under the "family reunification" law.

The Interior Department spends millions of dollars to clean up the mountains of trash discarded by illegal aliens crossing into California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Some immigration advocates peddle the notion that immigration will solve the future financial burdens of Social Security. Rubenstein shows how foolish is this prediction because today's low-wage workers will surely become tomorrow's expensive retirees.

Another cost that few talk about is that immigrant workers depress the wages received by native-born Americans, and that causes a $100 billion shortfall in federal tax revenue. Harvard University Professor George Borjas found that each 10 percent increase in the U.S. labor force from immigration reduces wages of native-born Americans by 5.25 percent.

Some liberals are trying to tell us to fight a recession by bringing in more immigrants, but that would only raid the pockets of U.S. taxpayers to support more millions of non-taxpayers. It's hard to say which is more outrageous: the diversion of Americans' personal income into cash handouts to foreigners, or the federal government's policy of concealing the fiscal impact of immigration.

[Anonymous]

Supplementary rant by the infamous Edgar Steele.  Call him racist, call him prejudice, I still value his opinion on the issue and see him as spot on on many issues, despite his objectionable opinions.  I see this as important to post for people to get a perspective on what is going on in the US relating to the illegal immigration issue.  When is it enough...

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A Rising Storm
by Edgar J. Steele

My name is Edgar J. Steele.
What's'a'matter, Bunky?  Having trouble making ends meet?  Sick of the cost of everything going up while your income actually goes down?  Laid off?  House equity shot?  Borrowed up to the gills with all your credit cards maxed out?  Now you can't afford food, you say?
 
Well, here's a big part of the reason why.  $36,000 flows to each illegal alien family in America, each and every year (see the first article reproduced below).  If that doesn't sound like much, consider that, with perhaps 80 million tax-paying households in America (yours being one of them, of course), each and every one of our households pays $4,325 each and every year toward that $36,000 that each illegal alien family receives.

Did you net $36,000 after taxes last year?  Neither did I.  But they did.  No wonder they keep flooding over that border.  Wouldn't you?

American Health Care in Crisis

 My son took my little girl to the local hospital emergency room a few weeks ago with a severe asthma attack.  Pretty much a routine, in-and-out affair.  Used to be, that might cost $100, or about twice what a doctor visit might cost.  Total bill this time?  Over $750!  Guess why?  Jose uses the Emergency Room freely as his doctor's office because Federal law requires our hospitals to treat his family there, whether or not they are able to pay.  We already pay for Jose in increased insurance premiums, but we also pay for him when we dare to use it, in outrageous charges.
 
I have a $5,000-deductible health insurance plan, which means that I provide my family insurance coverage only for catastrophic events.  I can't really afford it, but figure that I can't be without insurance altogether, just as so many Americans have been forced to do without.  That means I must pay my little girl's ER visit of $750 out of my pocket, just as if I had no insurance at all.  Thanks, Jose.
 
Jose's family is netting $36,000 after taxes (that they don't pay, of course) and getting free medical care.  You and I net less and pay for Jose's free medical care that we cannot afford.  We can't afford to go to the ER anymore, folks, face it.  In fact, we can't really afford medical insurance anymore, either.

All other things being equal, we might as well nationalize all of America's health care.  Socialized medicine would be better than no medicine, which is what so many of us now have, in effect.

Food Riots and Kidneys


Now begin the reports about food prices skyrocketing and there being actual shortages in places around America (see the second article below), with genuine food riots taking place in other countries.  Jose gets food stamps for his family, of course, and you can bet he is at the head of the line for Agriculture Department food handouts.

  And Jose gets to send his kids to college anywhere he wants, with no out-of-state tuition charges and, likely, no charges whatsoever since they get preference over our kids for grants and scholarships (not to mention admissions).  I can't afford to send my little girl out of state to the college she really wants because of non-resident tuition charges.  Idaho, as you might imagine, offers little in the way of higher education.
 
And, in LA, there is that illegal alien girl demanding her third kidney transplant (see the third story below) ... for free, of course (over a half million dollars for each one of the procedures).  Because we did the first two for her years ago for free, we owe her this one, too, she says.  What's worse is that it looks like she will get it.  Meanwhile many Americans on kidney waiting lists die for lack of a donor kidney.

 I don't know about you, but I am fed up with being a second- or third-class citizen in my own country, with racial preferences pushing Negroes and Mestizos ahead of my family, all while I am forced to pay for their good fortune.  And my money is taken at a time that forces me and mine to do without because of the rising cost of everything.

Each of the three "candidates" chosen for us to "vote" upon for President this time has pledged, if elected, to grant amnesty in one form or another to all these illegals.

Reality


 Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, yet 29% are on welfare, acknowledges our government grudgingly.

The US Senate voted to grant social security benefits to illegals, beginning this year.

29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens, per FBI figures.

Over a million sexual assaults are committed annually in America by illegal alens.

 The Los Angeles Times reports that, in Los Angeles (our largest city now effectively occupied by illegals):

    - 95% of warrants for murder are for illegal aliens.

    - 75% of people on the most wanted list are illegal aliens.

    - 2/3 of all births are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

    - 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

    - The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

    - 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

    - 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

    - In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English while 3.9 million speak Spanish.

What They Expect


What's more, illegals expect and demand to be taught in their own language, not ours.

Illegal aliens expect, demand and receive all manner of special privileges.

Illegal aliens expect, demand and are given affirmative action preferences in hiring, education and government benefits.

Illegal aliens expect, demand and are given ethnic studies that glorify their culture and denigrate ours.

Illegals expect and repeatedly are given full amnesty as a reward for their lawless behavior and unmannerly conduct in our country.

We Do Without


We have given up our jobs to those less qualified.

 Our children have been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.

Our families do with less.  Increasingly, more of us are hungry and, even, homeless, while the undeserving squalor of other countries feast upon the ever-decreasing bounty of America.

We do without health care that we need because we cannot afford it, because Mexico's burgeoning offal demands and takes it for free.

The retirement for which we paid Social Security taxes all these years now is being diluted and given to those who paid nothing for it.
 
I, for one, am beyond being sick of it all.

A Rising Storm

  Do you hear that thunder in the distance?  A bad storm is coming our way.

Yes, folks, things are going to become ugly for us - no doubt about it.  But things are going to become very, very ugly for you, Jose, when the payback begins.

And then we will turn our attention to those of you among us who destroyed our culture by holding the immigration floodgates wide open.  Street lamps throughout America will be festooned with the swaying bodies of politicians, plutocrats, bankers and other thieves, rest assured.
 
New America.  An idea whose time has come.

My name is Edgar J. Steele.  Thanks for listening.  Please visit my web site, www.ConspiracyPenPal.com, for other messages just like this one.

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[mastermg]

I live in LA and I remember one day the immigrants set a day for silent protest to not work and just stay home to see how it would impact the economy and society. I really enjoyed the traffic-less streets lol.

[Anonymous]

We were all immigrants at one time or anther, but there is a difference between legally controlled numbers coming into a country and respecting the rules and values in that country, and illegal masses flooding in that do not respect the rules and values of the host nation, and that want to take control of large sections of the land to claim as their own.  And making an illegal alien into a legal citizen is not the same as coming in legally to begin with.  This is all designed to create conflict... why do you think Bush-the-puppet is actively permitting amnesty and refuses to crack down on the illegal immigration and border issue... Meanwhile Americans who were born there lose jobs to greedy employers that only care about making money, and banks and other institutions favor illegal immigrants.  Trouble ahead.