Imagine living as a postgraduate student from the state of California with a high-paying job, such as a surgeon or anesthesiologist. Since you have to work extremely hard and pay a lot more income taxes for the salary you earn, you would normally want them to go to good use to the public, right? As it turns out, many illegal immigrants are draining hard-earned money from these types of taxes by using them from public services and often paying back little or no money at all. It doesn’t just affect people like this — anyone who is a US citizen that pays taxes is having their hard earned money taken away from them only to be used towards people who may not ever become citizens! The issue is important because it is just one out of the many different
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Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve with a PhD stated in his testimony before the US Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security on April 30th, 2009 that “[T]here is little doubt that unauthorized, that is, illegal, immigration has made a significant contribution to the growth of our economy. Between 2000 and 2007, for example, it accounted for more than a sixth of the increase in our total civilian labor force. The illegal part of the civilian labor force diminished last year as the economy slowed, though illegals still comprised an estimated 5% of our total civilian labor force. Unauthorized immigrants serve as a flexible component of our workforce, often a safety valve when demand is pressing and among the first to be discharged when the economy falters.” While this is undeniably true, there are many factors to the opposing argument that illegal immigration still does more bad than good. For example, he does not mention how much it costs US taxpayers to fund public services that illegal immigrants should be paying for, as well as how the money goes towards them so illegal immigrants can use them for free. He also doesn’t mention how it takes away jobs from US citizens. While there’s also illegal immigrants who want to work in the US because they’re in poverty, so do United States citizens! Also, while PolitiFact stated that illegal immigrants pay an estimated $12 billion dollars per year, it is not enough to pay back considering that bongino.com stated “in 2017, the Federal government spent $4 trillion, or 10.95 billion per day.” This would mean that the entirety of illegal immigrants in the country who do pay income taxes every year don’t cover nearly what the US government nearly spends in a
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve with a PhD stated in his testimony before the US Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security on April 30th, 2009 that “[T]here is little doubt that unauthorized, that is, illegal, immigration has made a significant contribution to the growth of our economy. Between 2000 and 2007, for example, it accounted for more than a sixth of the increase in our total civilian labor force. The illegal part of the civilian labor force diminished last year as the economy slowed, though illegals still comprised an estimated 5% of our total civilian labor force. Unauthorized immigrants serve as a flexible component of our workforce, often a safety valve when demand is pressing and among the first to be discharged when the economy falters.” While this is undeniably true, there are many factors to the opposing argument that illegal immigration still does more bad than good. For example, he does not mention how much it costs US taxpayers to fund public services that illegal immigrants should be paying for, as well as how the money goes towards them so illegal immigrants can use them for free. He also doesn’t mention how it takes away jobs from US citizens. While there’s also illegal immigrants who want to work in the US because they’re in poverty, so do United States citizens! Also, while PolitiFact stated that illegal immigrants pay an estimated $12 billion dollars per year, it is not enough to pay back considering that bongino.com stated “in 2017, the Federal government spent $4 trillion, or 10.95 billion per day.” This would mean that the entirety of illegal immigrants in the country who do pay income taxes every year don’t cover nearly what the US government nearly spends in a