Are Illegal Immigrants Costing You Money?
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said California is on the verge of going belly-up. The state is facing a $41 billion deficit and now folks are beginning to cast the blame.
Jim Gilchrist, of the Minuteman Project, suggested that illegal immigrants are partly to blame for the problem.
“There are seven million illegal immigrants living in California,” he said. “And they are costing us more than an arm and a leg.” According to his numbers, illegals represent 20 percent of California’s population and are costing the state $27 billion.
Illegals are not on the books and they do not pay payroll taxes. Taxpayers are also forced to pick up the tab on health care for illegals.
Gilchrist said his state is not the only one suffering at the hands of people who came to this country illegally — citing economic challenges in Rhode Island, Michigan, Texas and Mississippi.
Your thoughts?
Illegal immigration has been around for a long time in the states named. While health care, education and other expenses may threaten the states' livelihoods, they also realize that illegals pay taxes in a roundabout way — through rent, when they purchase goods and when some pay into Social Security by using numbers that were issued when amnesty was hoped for. On the other hand, some businesses that are barely scraping by now would shut down if they had to employ people at regular wages and pay health insurance and workmen's comp–and consumers would have to pay more for goods and services. Finally, solutions must be sought for this problem, but to look to place blame for on the illegal immigrants themselves and not those who have allowed it to flourish and even benefited from it is patently unfair.
I am sure the cost is high for the illegal immigrants but to say none of them pay taxes is not correct. I have worked with some illegal immigrants that had fake SS cards and paid taxes until they got caught. I think the biggest problem is with the health care and welfare programs a lot of them go on. I don't have a problem with people wanting to come here and work, in fact we need them here to fill the positions americans won't take. However, I do not want to support them when they get here. I don't think our tax payer money should be used to give them health care or welfare…
The Democrats must feel cornered. They want all of these free services for the illegal's, but now there just isn't enough money. Let us see who they favor now, their own voting constituents, or the squating illegal aliens who are costing the state so much, and contributing so little.
Leave your response!
Follow us on twitter
Stitcher
FOX All Access